I thought it was 'Scotch Irish'.
Wasp from Orange County, CA
> From: Larry Simpson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:30:20 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [BP] drinking Australian wine
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> I think youse came over with the Irish. Youse is used here on the west side of
> Cincinnati (we have verbal battles between eas and west) and y'all may have
> come over with the Scotts Irish. Somehow in parts of my native southern KY or
> Tenn. the word you'ns or yuns became used instead of youse. Here in Cincy it's
> spoken as youz.
>
> Larry2
>
>
> ---- "Kennedy wrote:
>> Now Ralph it may be true that those in the North were the "victors"
>> but that victory did not require a wholesale emulation of the Northern
>> bastardization of the English language. Y'all is the exceptable and
>> even preferred in the South and the further South y'all go the more
>> acceptable it be comes to all y'all. Australia being very South it is
>> fitting that y'all be the final word there.
>>
>> Locally 'all you all' often concludes a final angry and taunting phrase
>> directed to an opposing group so as to ascertain that no individual in
>> the group has been excluded and preceded by any number of derogatory
>> descriptions of said group almost always including but not limited to a
>> crude reference to the sexual act.
>>
>> pk
>>
>>
>>
>> May I remind the learned gentleman that those who say "youse" were the
>> victors in the Late Unpleasantness, and that those who say "all y'all"
>> were not. Get wit da program awreddy. You got a problem wit dat?
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
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