Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive

[Beverly Flanigan]

Same here in southern Ohio.  BTW, Jim Lehrer is from Texas, but where in
Texas I don't know.

At 06:28 PM 10/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Jessie,
>
>Nope. If y'all had had cousins from Southern Indiana you would have heard
>you-all (not y'all, which we thought was "southern"). And we wasn't no
>Foghorn Leghorns neither.
>
>dInIs
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Nancy Elliott"
> >Subject: Re: Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive
> >
> >
> >> And then there's "your-guyses," which I hear all the time...
> >
> >Which makes me think:  "ya'll" is the only southern form I know ("southern"
> >being "highland southern" in my terminology).  I only hear "you all" in
> >Foghorn Leghorn cartoons (although I will admit that it may be present in
> >coastal southern).  Where is Jim Lehrer from?
> >
> >I was always amused by my cousins in Indiana who said "you-uns" instead of
> >"ya'll."
> >
> >Jessie Emerson
>
>
>Dennis R. Preston
>Department of Linguistics and Languages
>Michigan State University
>East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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