At 05:08 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, Charles T. Hart wrote:
>> Having grown up in Northeast Tennessee, I would hate for the
>> terms "y'uns",
>> "us 'uns", "we 'uns" and "yorn" (as in..."how are you and yorn?")
>> to be left
>> by the wayside of this discussion.  Long live the nasal twang of Southern
>> Appalachia!
>
>And don't forget the obligatory suffix"tual" R of South Mississippi.  As in
>Tomater  and Potater.
>
>Its not incorrect, its a dialect.
>
>CTH
>

When I visited Crystal Caverns (I think), about half-way between Huntsville
and Chattanooga, out group was led by a guide, an employee of the Alabama
state parks service, who announced to the group that he spoke "Northeast
Alabama Redneck (NAR)", and that anyone who couldn't understand him shoud
head back north. He then let out a loud "Moan, y'all", and when nobody did
anything he explained that in NAR, "moan" does not mean that he's in pain,
but rather that he's now here, and that we should "moan after me and c'moan
over there".

Yigal




Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.