"Heynabonics. Kina funny, hey na?" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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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.
> > Not much new, except for the use of _hey na?_ for "right? you agree?
> > okay wit chu?", etc.
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> Now on Language Log:
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005129.html
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> Thanks for the tip, Wilson!
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> --Ben Zimmer


The Language Log post states:

"Paul Johnston, meanwhile, suggested a possible connection [from heyna]
to the Scottish tag ai no, since Ulster-Scots were also early settlers
in the region, though that seems less likely."

No doubt we will soon see a book entitled "How the Scots Invented Slang"
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