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English
- you'uns, you'ns, youuns, youns
- youins, you'ins, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns
- yinz (Pittsburgh, Appalachia)
- you'nes (Greater Cumberland Valley, Appalachia)
Etymology
From you + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
you-uns
- (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) You (plural, as subject or object).
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country (Nebraska 2005), page 122:
- Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.
Synonyms
- see the list of other second-person pronouns in you