second-person pronouns redux

[Dennis R. Preston]

I want to be pedantic (what the hell is this list for?), and I bet yours
was a reduction of "momma and them" and the one cited from farther north
was of "mom and them," and I also bet that subtle phonetic-phonological
distinctions would survive except in perhaps the most allegro speech forms.

dInIs

>If that "word" is a reduction of "momma and them," the informants were
>probably related to me.  I grew up on "momanem."
>                                PAT


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