I'm also a Pittsburgh native, but being from a family that valued
education, I knew better than to say "yunz" (my spelling of you-uns)
or "worshing machine" (the device that cleans your clothing). But it
wasn't till I moved out of Pittsburgh and became the object of
laughter that I learned not to say the floor needed swept or my room
needed cleaned. (01)
Kathy (02)
At 2:36 PM -0600 4/16/07, Conklin, Don wrote:
>Having lived in Texas for some years, I didn't see the multiple version
>of "y'all" used. "Y-all" was applied to individuals and/or groups
>indiscriminately.
>
>As a native New Yorker, I thought "youse" was a similarly used term
>applicable to individuals or groups.
>
>Don Conklin
>Lockheed Martin
>
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>Dave
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>I've had it on pretty good authority that the plural of y'all is
>"all-y'all" as in "Why don't all-y'all come on down for some grits?"
>
>Dave McComb, President, Semantic Arts, Inc. www.semanticarts.com
>(970) 490-2224
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>Sowa
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>Chris,
>
>As a Pittsburgh native, I can fill in some details of the
>Pittsburgh dialect (which I heard, but never mastered
>because of conflict with my grandmother's Polish).
>
>CM> "y'all'll" is an authentic Texas double contraction, y'all!
> > My favorite is the 2nd-person plural possessive "y'all's",
> > as in "Do y'all want lemon in y'all's ice tea?" The only
> > other English 2nd-person plurals I know of are "youse" and
> > "you-uns" (and their variants like "yiz" and "yins"), but
> > I'm not sure if either accommodates the possessive -- can
> > any New England or Appalachian natives speak authoritatively
> > here?
>
>The Pittsburgh plural is halfway between "you-uns" and "yins".
>It has one syllable like "yins", but the vowel is pronounced
>with the tongue lower and farther back.
>
>My favorite contraction occurs in the following Pittsburghese
>sentence:
>
> "Whynchyuins kids red up the hahs while I go take a shahr?"
>
>The first word is a contraction of "Why-don't-you-ones".
>
>The verb "red up" means to "ready up". It occurs in some
>Scottish dialects and in some parts of Canada and Virginia
>as well as Western Pennsylvania.
>
>The diphthong /au/ in "house" and "shower" is pronounced
>as a long vowel, as in the "a" of "about", but lengthened
>for same duration as the diphthong in "house".
>
>And by the way, the Chicago plural of "you" is "yaz",
>with the same vowel as in the "a" of "about".
>
>John
>
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