[geeks] Y'all

[Michael Schiller]

Steven Hill wrote:
> 
> We Scots have a tendency to say "yous" as the plural of you.
> 
> In context: "See yous, yer a' bampots!"
> 

I wonder if that's where the word y'uns that's common in this part of TN
comes from? y'uns as another form of y'all that is. From what I've been
told there is a lot of Scotch & Irish influence in the mountains here.

-- 
-Mike
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