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Originally Posted by GeoffW1
Bart,
Yes. That usage of "good" is just slang, or bad grammar if you like. It might be a creeping Americanism,  as it seems to have originated in the Andy Griffith Show.
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Yes, it is a from the USA and comes from a "regional" dialect in the Southern US of A.
The Andy Griffith Show would be a a good older example but more recently Larry "The Cableguy" (voice of Tow-mater in Cars and Comedy Stylist) with his famous tag "Git R Done" would be another more recent example.
The original would actually be better represented as "Yuh done good" (along with Y'all Come Back Now, Yuh Hear; from Jed Clampett's closing of the Beverly Hillbillys show)...Yuh and Y'all are key vocabulary words of the South...
As a person who grew up speaking a variation of the "Southern Dialect" (my wife often refers to me as Gomer Pyle, another Mayberry resident) I am amazed how far it's influence is now felt.
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