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No love for “yinz?” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz
by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
No love for “yinz?”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz
- alistairSH 2y agoI love "yin"! I have a few friends from western PA and love when they're around so I can use "yinz" freely. Neither of them really use it in day-to-day speech, it's more of a shibboleth of sorts (or whatever the term would be for "look at me, I'm from group X"). Whatever, it's a fun word.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoYinz is literally the only evidence available that that part of PA isn't actually West Virginia.
- EvanAnderson 2y agoI hadn't heard that one. My ex-father-in-law (from an Appalachian upbringing) was big on "you 'uns". "Yinz" reminds me of that.