Dr. Goodword's Travels

[Dr. Goodword]

The good Dr. Goodword (Robert Beard) will be traveling today to Colorado to spend the holidays with his sons and grandchildren. This means that his attendance to the Good Words in the Agora will be sporadic. Should I forget to copy a Good Word over to the Agora, I would not be offended if one of our regulars did. I just copy and paste them in, then touch them up a little with bold and italic fonts.

I will be in touch and will return on December 30.

[Bailey]

Ah, I admit that there have been times when I desperately wanted to reply to one of your words I did just that.

mB.

Have a safe and great trip, a Merry Christmas and Happy/prosperous New Year to all also!

[Perry]

I am going to be really slammed during this time. Can someone else handle the WOTD this time around?

[sluggo]

I am going to be really slammed during this time. Can someone else handle the WOTD this time around?

Why, I'll be pleased to take it.

[gailr]

All us'all (we'uns?) should get the Good Dr. Goodword back in a timely fashion; this winter has--so far--been nicer than last years!

-gailr
hoping not to need her snow-up-to-the-eyeballs avatar this time around...

[sluggo]

All us'all (we'uns?) ...

I have an ongoing friendly feud with a close friend who first turned me on to this site, on the topic of whether this word truly exists in Pennsylvania.

-gailr
hoping not to need her snow-up-to-the-eyeballs avatar this time around...

Hey! Don't be rubbin' it in!
So far all I got was a dusting last weekend that embodied the word subtle -with the sun shining.

-Sluggo, even now forced to watch a 36 degree rain...

[Perry]

Sluggo, where you live now you have to replace y'all with you'uns.

[sluggo]

Sluggo, where you live now you have to replace y'all with you'uns.

[fingers in ears] la la la I can't hear you[/fingers]

No really, I'm still in North Cackalack, just an hour away. Have still never heard this one in real whirled parlance.

[Stargzer]

We'uns I've never heard.

Ah, but yuns as in "Wutter yuns doin'?" is genuine Pittsburgese as spoken by my late brothers-in-law and other in-laws and friends from Pgh.

Me, I'm a native Warshintonian, to spell it phonetically. You know, the place where Congress (the opposite of Progress) meets.

[gailr]

One feels that there should be a first person cazh‡ plural lexical equivalent -- lowbrow as it may be -- to y'all or (gailr revels in ungrammaticalism) *all* y'all where em-face-iss is needed.

If yuns don't cotton to we'uns, kindly cough up yer alternate suggestions. Maybe Santa will leave some ideas in yer stockin's. Happy Chrismahanukwanzayulakah to y'all, and to all y'all a good night.

-gailr

‡ cazh = casual, as opposed to formal, court speak.

[sluggo]

One feels that there should be a first person cazh‡ plural lexical equivalent -- lowbrow as it may be -- to y'all or (gailr revels in ungrammaticalism) *all* y'all where em-face-iss is needed.

If yuns don't cotton to we'uns, kindly cough up yer alternate suggestions. Maybe Santa will leave some ideas in yer stockin's. Happy Chrismahanukwanzayulakah to y'all, and to all y'all a good night.

-gailr

‡ cazh = casual, as opposed to formal, court speak.

A parcel of curiousibilities here: Nummer wan, how did you do ‡ (and 1a, whatdaya call ‡)? - Numbner too, would not to demand the objective usn's rathered than we'ns and Nunner 2a, what do the N in usn's, y'uns, we'uns etc stand for?

I fink yer makin this stoof up.

Jest makin' shore I git my coal, it's coaled out here in the mountin's

Happy Merry Eve one and all. You too Adam.

ps Y'all is always plural (Sluggo's First Law)

[sluggo]

We'uns I've never heard.

Ah, but yuns as in "Wutter yuns doin'?" is genuine Pittsburgese as spoken by my late brothers-in-law and other in-laws and friends from Pgh....

Yes I've heard of the existence of this but w'all in SEPA consider Pittsburgh to be pretty much another country. I'd guess they prolly think the same. I've only been there once or twice, never for long enough to case the local parlance. It's the strangest thing to walk around in such a foreign land and yet the license plates are all familiar...

Again, warmest wishes and/or wimmest warshes to all and to all a good knight.

[Stargzer]

...
A parcel of curiousibilities here: Nummer wan, how did you do ‡ (and 1a, whatdaya call ‡)?

That would be a double-dagger -- ‡ , as opposed to the regular dagger -- †.

On a WinDoze machine you can click Start/Run and run charmap.exe to find it as well as a host of other special characters you can select to copy and paste..

- Numbner too, would not to demand the objective usn's rathered than we'ns and Nunner 2a, what do the N in usn's, y'uns, we'uns etc stand for?

Probably a contraction of "one."

...

Jest makin' shore I git my coal, it's coaled out here in the mountin's

Happy Merry Eve one and all. You too Adam.

ps Y'all is always plural (Sluggo's First Law)

One year at the office the secretaries in the front office were all being catty with each other. I stayed late one night since I was going on leave, wrapping charcoal briquets in Christmas paper. I dropped one into each stocking in the front office; secretaries for their cattiness and the managers on general principles. Months later a friend was looking in my trunk and saw a wrapped briquet and said, "Oh, did uou get one too?" I said, "No, I'm the one who gave them out!" He said everyone was blaming it on Tom, the Union Rep.

I use y'all in the singular, so I guess I need some remedial Southern Grammer. In Boston, it's "all o' yuz."

Merry Christmas, Sluggo, and to the rest of the denizens of the AlphaAgora the Alpha of all Dictionary sites.

[Perry]

Sluggo, where you live now you have to replace y'all with you'uns.

[fingers in ears] la la la I can't hear you[/fingers]

No really, I'm still in North Cackalack, just an hour away. Have still never heard this one in real whirled parlance.

When I was selling INsurance nearly six years ago, I had a client in Burnsville who used the term you'uns. Hence my remark. I believe that you are in Yancy county now.

[sluggo]

When I was selling INsurance nearly six years ago, I had a client in Burnsville who used the term you'uns. Hence my remark. I believe that you are in Yancy county now.

Could they have grown up in Pittsburgh or y'know, that other Pennsylvania?

Yes, I believe it is Yancey but they all have that local twang.
Well, folks you do, all y'all do.
I think your client musta bin an isolated case.
(was it the UMbrella INsurance?)

Larry, 'all o' youse' is very familiar from Philly, or anywhere Irish immigrants were numerous -though my first encounter as a child with this written word was confusing as I wanted to pronounce it to rhyme with 'house' which didn't match anything I had heard (and still doesn't). And happy healthy hollydaze back atchya.