second-person pronouns redux

[Johanna N Franklin]

In Pittsburgh, there's "n'at," which is used to used to indicate "and
all that" or for emphasis - I haven't quite figured out a good way to
characterize the context yet:

They went out and got a beer -> They went aht and got a beer n'at.

(implication being that they hung around for a while)

    Johanna

Excerpts from mail: 2-Mar-100 Re: second-person pronouns .. by P2052 at AOL.COM
> In Southern African-American communities, I often hear, "nem,"  an even
> further reduction of "and them."  My guess is that the process was the
> following:
> "and them" > an' 'em > nem.  For example, a speaker might at some point have
> uttered the following:  "Kathy and them left town."  Later, the utterance was
> reduced to "Kathy an' 'em left town."  Now, it has become "Kathy 'nem left
> town,"  the pattern which I hear almost all of the time.   PAT


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