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From: msc4414@sdc.cs.boeing.com (Sue Comstock)
Subject: Re: Plural You
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In article <5471r4$j49@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, pruss+@pitt.edu (Alexander R Pruss) writes:
> Michael S. Klingensmith (M_Klingensmith@poboxes.com) wrote:
> : Here's a new "you" in the plural.  In the Pittsburgh, PA area of the US a
> : lot of people say "yins" or "youns"
> 
> Oh?  Which people and where?  I haven't heard it yet.  But I've only been
> here 1.5 months

Yes, I can testify that "yuns" is used in the Pittsburgh area. I'm not sure
how to describe the vowel sound - something like the u in "put"...

I grew up about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, and heard it a lot - my
family didn't use it or any form of plural you, though. Joe DeNardo, a
Pittsburgh weather man, has the quintessential Pittsburgh accent, although
I never heard him say "yuns" on the air...

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Sue Comstock                    
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