Re: Dialect and register

--- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:

> I dunno.  A lot of those things are extremely
> unnatural in my part of the country.
Well, those things are all dialect dependent - I
never said they were ubiquitious!

> Everyone says "y'all", but
> anyone saying "you'uns", "youse" or "tha" would
> get strange looks or incomprehension.
Of course, the local fondue pot of dialectology
will accept just about anything. When the
register rises, though, the number of forms tends
to shrink in favor of the "standard".

Padraic.


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