direcshun

English

Noun

direcshun (plural direcshuns)

1. Eye dialect spelling of direction.
   • 1868, Anna E. Dickinson, What Answer?‎^[1]:

     [W]hen de man had tole me how to go, I went right long till I got out ob sight ob de little house, an' den I got into de woods, an' turned right round de oder way an' made tracks fast as I could in dat direcshun."

   • 1874, Edwin Eastman, Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches‎^[2]:

     The company's post war the nearest, so I jest took down the river in that direcshun.