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

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

>
>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.

It's gotta be *at least* two syllables, Phil.  Even such a word as "Yes"
has three syllables here only 200 miles south of Pgh.  "Yay-ay-us".


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