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I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.