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To: squarebarb
and ‘youins’ with the lower Midwest, like lower Illinois and Indiana.

They may say it there, but my first encounter with "youins" and where I consistently hear it today is in....east Tennessee. My wife is from an upper middle class family in Knoxville and I don't hear her say it as much. But my brother-in-law in Sevier County sure does.

16 posted on 03/14/2010 11:05:11 AM PDT by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: lovecraft

Yes, you’re right, it is used in East Tennessee.

From what I have heard the East Tennessee accent is in a class by itself. they say ‘bewk’ for book, in other words pronouncing ‘book’ to rhyme with ‘boo’. East Tennesseans do sound a bit like Lowland Scots, or the ‘Lallands’ dialect.

A beautiful style of speech BTW.


20 posted on 03/14/2010 11:13:49 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: lovecraft; squarebarb

I have a copy somewhere of several pages from a court reporter’s transcript, from about 1990, so not at all ancient, filed in Washington County, Virginia — very close to Sevier County, TN — where the term is written as “youens.” Also, the word “yous” appears several times.


40 posted on 03/14/2010 12:08:35 PM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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