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To: TalBlack
Nobody mentioned "yuns" Ohio-midwest, contraction of you-un's as in "yuns gonna meet us there, or what?"

I always considered "yuns" to be a West Virginia import and pretty rarely spoken in Ohio.
34 posted on 11/28/2003 7:48:28 AM PST by mylife
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To: mylife
Yuns, or rather its variant, yins, is pretty common around Pittsburgh, the town that eastern Pennsylanians think is the largest city in West Virginia. Yuns/yins is a vestigal usage that in many areas, like the Missouri Ozarks, has been replaced by ya'll.
49 posted on 11/28/2003 8:23:03 AM PST by Wallace T.
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