second-person pronouns redux

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Sounds pretty usual to me too (born and raised in Saskatchewan).  I've
probably heard it all my life, but it was never used in our immediate
family.

Victoria

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of GRADMA at UVVM.UVIC.CA
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 6:22 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: second-person pronouns redux
>
>
> My son-in-law, who lives in Nanaimo, B.C. (about one-third of the way up
> Vancouver Island) uses "...and them" with reference to one person
> named and
> one or more others, e.g. "Gordie 'n' them." I don't recall ever hearing it
> before he joined our family, but he's born and bred Nanaimo and
> the rest of
> us are Victoria (well, I came here from Ontario, but I've lived here since
> 1961). When I first heard it, I thought it was idiosyncratic, but
> apparently
> it's not.
>
> Barbara Harris
>