Re: Audire, audimus, audit... uh, say what?

[Phil and Judy Rose <pjrose@servtech.com>]

>Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:43:53 -0400
>From: four.rings@MCIONE.com
>Subject: Re: Audire, audimus, audit... uh, say what?
>
>Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>
>
>> I always thought "y'all" was singular and "all y'all" was the plural > form?
>
>Here in Philly the underclass thinks that "you" is singular whereas "youz" is
>plural.
>
>Likewise one visiting Philly might enrichen his/her language by learning
>to say:
>"I says" and "Yo!".
>:-)
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Igor Kessel,
>a Philadelphian due to a bizarre caprice of Fate


A variant used around the Pittsburgh end of Pennsylvania (or so I'm told)
is something like: "yuns" (maybe "you-uns"?). Sounds to me as though it is
a plural form, but I'm not even sure if it's pronounced with one or two
syllables.

Phil Rose
in Rochester owing to a bizarre '60 dorF Falcon (I don't think the bizarre
caprice was available back then)

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