[TriLUG] Introduction

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Sun Jan 25 17:29:03 EST 2009


I remember taking a bus from Woodberry Forest School in VA to Seven
Springs, PA for some skiing and hearing "y'uns" for the first time. I'm
sure my "you'll" sounded funny to those ladies, too.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Aaron Joyner
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 4:01 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Introduction

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=appa
lachian+you%27ns&source=bl&ots=M4fWIm59ru&sig=KYowDl9dOl6Z9FhvBZM9DHum4k
0&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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