How would you interpret this sentence? Trying to steer the conversation onto her family proved difficult, but ultimately yielded Parthenia’s fascinating diagnosis of Sister Violet’s yen for self-improvement: “Our mother read the books. We believe it made her tubercular.” A long pause. “Violet be the same.” Another pause. “We was all in our family borned with sense. But Violet be the only one to vex herself on wanting to be learn-ed.” Born-ed, learned, here was the raw version of Violet’s peculiar diction, without the gloss acquired from twenty years of office work. “We was afeared she would turn out like t’other one. The lady doctor that was born-ed here in the town.” “Elizabeth Blackwell?” “That one. Violet readen a book on her. Mother was afeared of her going away to be learned for the doctoring.” “That would have been an interesting career for your sister.”How would you interpret this sentence “The lady doctor that was born-ed here in the tow”? I looked it up and found that Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England. So I guess the woman, Parthenia, made a mistake. I also guess the author, Barbara Kingsolver, wants to make the character seem ignorant by this mistake. What do you think? Thanks! This excerpt is taken from The Lacuna by Kingsolver.PS: the speakers were Americans residing in Asheville, North Carolina.So when the woman said, “The lady doctor that was born-ed here in the town”, she meant Elizabeth Blackwell was born in Asheville, right? But I looked it up and found that Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England.