"Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?"

[Wilson Gray]

I apologize for failing to add the relevant URL's. That was pretty
stupid of me, since I made a point of copying the URL's before writing
the post.

-Wilson

On 11/16/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?"
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> On Nov 16, 2007 3:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > FWIW, four minutes on YouTube of a "class" on the dialect of NE PA.
>
> Here's the link:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sMI2jb16eo
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> And some background:
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> http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071115_15heynabonics_ART.html
> http://www.ecweekend.com/features/story.asp?id=45626
>
> > Not much new, except for the use of _hey na?_ for "right? you agree?
> > okay wit chu?", etc.
>
> DARE's got _haina_ (one cite from nePA, 1986), cross-referencing
> _ainna_ (used chiefly in German settlement areas, contraction of
> _ain't it_, influenced by Ger. _nicht wahr_).
>
> This came up in a discussion here last year on "innit":
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0611B&L=ADS-L&P=R2030
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> --Ben Zimmer
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