second-person pronouns redux

Peter Richardson prichard at LINFIELD.EDU
Wed Mar 1 15:56:09 UTC 2000


We could extend this to third-person pronouns as well. I know many people
around Monkey Run, Arkansas (also known as Pilgrim's Rest--near Cotter and
Flippin, if you've got your maps out) who will refer to two people,
usually a married couple, as "X and them": "When are Joyce and them [Joyce
and her husband Francis] coming over?"

Peter Richardson



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