How did "I am going to" turn into "fixento"?

Well in Texas this would be used like this. “I am fixen to go down to the store.” LOL :)

Generally used only in the state of Texas, ‘fixing to’ is the equivalent of ‘about to’ or ‘getting ready to’. If used outside of Texas, likely the person using it is from Texas or has spent a great deal of time in Texas. Also, this person will likely be on the receiving end of, “You’re… what?”

Thats the only thing I can find. No one really knows how it started?? lol

Yes I know, my wife now uses this word, and so does her sister.

lol. I went to kansas, to meet my boyfriends parents, and they all made me say phrases like “hey yall”, “dad gum”, and “britches” hehe

Ah…”fixing to”….I was reading it as “fix-EN-toe”, lol

Im from Louisiana and almost everyone i know uses that phrase, including me. Its normal here, but i have no clue as to how it came around. Alot of phrases and words we use here make no sense or are not used by other places…thats part of being from the south! lol. Things like “Ya’ll” “Roun’ Yonder” “Down in the holler” “Wrastlin” “Out in the boonedocks” “How’s your family and ‘dem” “Fixing too” “Going to town” “Coons” I could go all day here. Then i really confuse people when the cajun french comes out.

To fix can mean the same as to affix; that is, to place something permanently, or establish it in a fixed (in other words, permanent) place. So if I’m preparing in my mind to do something, I’m trying to establish for myself a fixed commitment that I’m going to do it, so I’m fixing the idea in my mind. That’s how it came to mean what it does in parts of the south, imho.

Btw, I’ve never lived in the south, but I often use the word “y’all” because there’s no other good English plural for “you.”