Cord Lock Is NOT Broken!!!

BlairB said:
Could some one explain the difference between y'all and you'ins?
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Y'all is from the south so I am not sure but...You'ins is poor english from Western Pennsylvania/Pittsburgh or the surrounding tri state area.(PA, WV, OH).
 
A lot of "Pittsburgh slang" as it is called originated in the south when depressed Southerners moved up there to work the steel mills. My girlfriend is from Pittsburgh and some of her slang is worse than the worst redneck slang. ;)
 
akula83 said:
Y'all is from the south so I am not sure but...You'ins is poor english from Western Pennsylvania/Pittsburgh or the surrounding tri state area.(PA, WV, OH).
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Some of the old folks in my family still say you'uns but I reckon that once they die off, so will "you'uns". :p
 
OK... I think as an expert in this field (duly recognized by just about anyone who has actually spoken with me in person or on the phone) I am in a position to set'ch'all strate on a few things.

Terms Attributed to the South and their Proper Usage 101

As a poster above has alluded - you'ins is indeed both a Northern/Southern experssion mostly heard in PA,OH and some in KY. Not to be confused with youz'guyz (which definately belongs to the Yankees from from NJ, NY and inner Philly).

Now y'all is really a very eloquent word, we Southerners do not like to expend more energy than necessary to get the job done (that sounds so much better than lazy doesn't it?) so when we combine terms such as you all into y'all or sense you was often heard as senchuous, we are merely being conservative with our words. :D

Y'all is indeed both singular and plural - ie. when talking to a group - "Hey did y'all see my new Monster Truck I got?" or when talking to one person "When was the last time that y'all heard from your Mom'n&'em?"

It can be used in a dire warning to a friend - "OOhh, y'all shouldn't oughta done that to them Bees!" and also in an exsperated tone in a question -"How you could y'all not see what them two dogs wazadoin?"

I think you understand. Hopefully this will help to enlighten y'all some in the mysterious ways of the Southern folk.
 
Hillbilly,

email me and I'll send yall one of dem dere cord locks up yer way
 
My mother, being born in Fleming-Neon, Kantuckee (Letcher County - SAH-LOOT!) and Dad from Indiana, Pennsylvania, not too far from Pittsburgh, I feel uniquely qualified to tell all of you that you are accurate. :D

Being from around Baltimore, we have a bunch of different stuff going on. Bawlmer, Bommer, Bawmore, amlance or amblance, liberry, zink (a kitchen sink), frigidaire (regardless of make, it's a frigid-air), betrum (this is a two betrum apament). We have a lot of Philly-Boston-Southern stuff going on. You want dat sammich witorwitoutonions? :D

For our purposes in this forum, we must take a page from Murderland, a stick ain't a stick, it's a knife. 'Cuz you stick someone with it. 8-)
 
That's good stuff Don. :thumbup: It used to be the same here in TN with the Frigidaire when I was young.

It's fascinating the way the english language changes throughout the US, not to mention how it is spoken abroad. I love to hear an Aussie talk (but I doubt anyone from down under would reciprocate that feeling). :D
 
I know, ain't it cool? :D

I love Appalachia. I lived for almost a year down around Pound, Virginia (Birthplace of U-2 Spy Plane Pilot Francis Gary Powers, some say born in Jenkins, Kentucky and raised in Pound, Virginia.). I love that whole place man.
 
Just got back from training the first round of Aussie pilots in the jungle. One of them did pretty good at mocking my southern english. All of them took my ribbing them about their screwed up English pretty good :D
 
I am blessed with inlaws from Kentucky and Missouri, and now live in Oz. I need multiple translators to decipher the Christmas cards. How can anyone use yuns and mate in the same sentence.
 
Well hell far, its about time i founded me a thread thats gots people talkin like i talk. lmao
 
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