--- "Matthew H. Hammond" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Jim and yous all:
>
> I have run across this and similar usages in Southern Scotland. IN
> the
> Borders, "yous" is quite common. You can also hear it in
> Dumfreiesshire and
> Galloway. IN Teviotdale and the Merse the usage "yEs" is perhaps more
> common. It is my understanding that both of these are used in Ulster
> as
> well.
Now youm be talking, as we zay in Mummerset.
Oriens.
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