From an email joke: "You're from the Deep South, if ...

[Wilson Gray]

Everything is either 'yonder,' 'in yonder,' 'out yonder' or 'over
yonder.'  It's important to know the difference, too."


Undoubtedly not true everywhere in whatever region that the author may
understand as "the Deep South," but absolutely true for BE-speakers of
all classes and age groups in in the Marshall, Texas, of a
half-century ago. People also said, e.g.:

"He went yonder way."
"Naw. Not this-a way / that-a way. *Yonder* way."
"Yon he go!" and, occasionally, "Yon he come!", if _he_ was
sufficiently distant, when first noticed (though _yon_ wasn't
otherwise used).

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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