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Music Appreciation

The Polack MSgt

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3. You'ns (I guess phonetically YOONZ) is pretty common

Reply to dawg day (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:00 PM

Apr 2020

between central Tennessee, through Kentucky and southern WV

But I came up in SW Pennsylvania, about 14 miles from Wheeling, 30-ish miles from Pittsburgh.

We said yinz.

Around the Pittsburgh area "Yinzer" is the usual term for rural folks.

The SW PA version of "Redneck"

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Can I tell alla yinz a story? [View all] The Polack MSgt Apr 2020 OP

I'z a middle-schooler at Hong Kong International when this hit, so I wasn't TOO far from ya then mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #1

"Yinz"? I've heard that (you-uns, y'all variant)- dawg day Apr 2020 #2

You'ns (I guess phonetically YOONZ) is pretty common The Polack MSgt Apr 2020 #3