second-person pronouns redux

[Bob Haas]

Or as a lot of people I know put it, "mommer n'nem."

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Bob Haas
Department of English
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
High Point University


"Shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"



> From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:25:39 -0500
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: second-person pronouns redux
>
> I want to be pedantic (what the hell is this list for?), and I bet yours
> was a reduction of "momma and them" and the one cited from farther north
> was of "mom and them," and I also bet that subtle phonetic-phonological
> distinctions would survive except in perhaps the most allegro speech forms.
>
> dInIs
>
>> If that "word" is a reduction of "momma and them," the informants were
>> probably related to me.  I grew up on "momanem."
>> PAT
>
>
> Dennis R. Preston
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