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To: jay1949

So “yall” “y’all” is slang for yous?


28 posted on 03/14/2010 11:32:40 AM PDT by dps.inspect
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To: dps.inspect

We was yuzzed! It happened in a diner in Eastern Pennsylvania. “Can I get anyting else for yuz, Hon? I wonder if that is a variation.


30 posted on 03/14/2010 11:38:47 AM PDT by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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To: dps.inspect

Not really; same idea, but with independent origins.

One of the points of my article is that words like “yous” and “you’ns” aren’t slang; they were accepted forms which eventually weren’t taken into “standard” American English.


33 posted on 03/14/2010 11:42:43 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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