Amanda Godley wrote:

>Here in Pittsburgh (Western PA), some locals refer to themselves (orally and
>on bumper stickers) as "yinzers" - derived from the use of "yinz" for the
>plural "you." This feature of the local dialect ("Pittsburghese") is viewed
>by locals with humor and a kind of self-deprecating pride, as in "we think
>it sounds awful, but this is who we are." Some local sociolinguistics have
>done interesting research on Pittsburghers' attitudes toward their own
>dialect.
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>There are various Pittsburghese "translation" websites (e.g.,
>www.pittsburghese.com), one of which translates John Kennedy's famous line
>as: "Ask not wah yinzes country can do fer you n'at. Ask wah yinz can do fer
>yinzes country."
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>I don't know if yinz is the same as Warren's "y'uns." Perhaps "y'uns" is
>more common in rural areas in Western PA?
>Amanda
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>On 9/25/07 4:38 PM, "Warren Sieme" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>My Mom was from Western Pennsylvania. She would never think of
>>referring to the plural you as "you all," or as "y'all." To her, if
>>more than one of you were going somewhere, it would be, "Are y'uns
>>goin' dawntawn?" If it was a really big group, it would be "y'unses"
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>>Warren
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>>From: Veit, Richard <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Sent: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 1:57 pm
>>Subject: Y'all and you guys
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>>I had the reverse experience from the one
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>>a native Southerner, I was amused (but not very surprised) to notice
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>>have their own plural version as well ­ ³you guys.² It¹s
>>used for both men and women (so the ³guys² part doesn¹t have
>>its usual masculine connotation) and, as kind of a clencher for the
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>>that it¹s acting as a unitary pronoun, the possessive in informal speech
>>is ³you guys¹s² (the last word sounds exactly like ³guises²).
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>>As a freshly transplanted Northerner in Wilmington, North
>>  Carolina, thirty years ago, I was invited by my chair
>>to play tennis. Some confusion arose about which tennis balls on the
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>>³Y¹all
>>got all y¹all¹s balls?² I knew I wasn¹t in Iowa any more.
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>>Dick Veit
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>>Richard Veit
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>>Department of English
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>>University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Has anyone mentioned 2nd person plural in my neck of the woods: "you'uns."?

Marshall

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