Re: OT: All'y'all's's's's'...

On 5/14/05, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have also produced
> "you'ns" when talking to a group, addressing a specific subset of that
> group.
> 
The major distinctive feature of the Pittsburghese dialect of English is the 
2nd person plural "yinz", from "yunz" (still widely heard), from "you'uns". 
Usually I only see the word Pittsburghese on humorous coffee mugs and the 
like; more often I hear it called the Yinzer dialect. 

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