second-person pronouns redux

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Mar 1 19:03:23 UTC 2000


>More than 15 years ago, when we wrote the DARE entry for "and them," it
>seemed to be chiefly Southern.  But since then I've heard it in the West
>and in Wisconsin too.

I've seen "momanem" cited as Pittsburghese in a lexicon of informal speech
in that city.

larry



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