[TriLUG] Introduction

Aaron Joyner aaron at joyner.ws
Sun Jan 25 16:00:44 EST 2009


You'ns is a quirk of the Appalachian dialect.  It's actually fairly
prevalent in Caldwell County where I now live, particularly with older
residents.  I would assume that if you followed the Appalachian
mountains up into PA, you'd likely find people use it in the mountain
regions, there.  A Google search for "appalachian you'ns" seems to
confirm my understanding[1], of particular interest are the first
couple sources[2].

Aaron S. Joyner

1 - http://www.google.com/search?q=appalachian+you%27ns
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pennsylvania_accent
2 - http://books.google.com/books?id=MU-43z3ZiToC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=appalachian+you%27ns&source=bl&ots=M4fWIm59ru&sig=KYowDl9dOl6Z9FhvBZM9DHum4k0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA300,M1


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> Doubt it.  $WIFE and her family are from PA, and in my trips there I've
> never heard them, or anyone they know, say y'uns.
>
> William Sutton
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Jim Ray wrote:
>
>> Must be from PA.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Scott Lambdin
>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:50 PM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Introduction
>>
>> One place the plural is "yuns".
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