Singular "yez"?

[Wilson Gray]

On Dec 13, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:

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> Back to "yez"
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> From _The Tiger Claw_, yearbook of the class of 1925, The University
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> School, Columbia MO, p. 76 (in a section of jokes).
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> "Mike (in bed, to alarm clock as it goes off) -- I fooled yez that
> time.  I
> was not aslape at all."
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The  name, Mike, and "aslape" look like pseudo-Irish English. Maybe
"yez" was considered to be an Irish-English thing.

-Wilson Gray