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Old 12-11-2013, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Brookline, PGH
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Originally Posted by Copanut View Post
Anyone who says yinz, younz, yunz or whatever is just plain lazy. I thank my Mother who made sure we never said any of those words.
She made you say "you ones," all fancy like and that?
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:02 PM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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Hey, everyone. Native Pittsburgher here, living in exile like so many others.

I have a question. Or rather my wife (not from Pittsburgh) had a question I couldn't really answer: How come, she asks, sometimes people in Pittsburgh say "younz" (my grandparents, for instance) and sometimes they say "yinz"?

That stumped me, which, since I'm the resident Ph.D. on all things Pittsburgh around here, is a problem.

I have no idea why people would say one or the other. Do you? Is one more prevalent in certain parts of western PA? (My grandparents, who always say "younz," never "yinz," live in Vandergrift.) Is it a generational thing? (My grandparents are in their 80s).

Obviously they both mean "you all" but does one refer to a greater number of people? I hadn't thought Pittsburghese was this complex ...

"Yinz" is generally used in close proximity to the city. "Younz" is generally used in the outskirts / Southwestern PA Appalachians.
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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She made you say "you ones," all fancy like and that?

No. Just could not say yinz, younz, I seen, He don't, I ain't got, stuff like that, n'at.
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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In the upper Beaver Valley it was, and still is "youns", at least as of the last time I was there.
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