second-person pronouns redux

Grant Barrett gbarrett at AMERICANDIALECT.ORG
Thu Mar 2 13:01:46 UTC 2000


On Tuesday, February 29, 2000, Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:
>This appeared on a newsgroup I read. I know we have discussed "y'all" et al.
>here, but the special Arkansas meaning of "y'uns" described by Joyce Melton is
>new to me. Comments?
>

Yes. You'll find at leat a couple items discussing that in the archives, as I have
brought it up before as being said by relatives in Southeast Missouri.




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Grant Barrett
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