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Full of hicks from TN and KY that "reverse carpetbagged" North for auto jobs... how do you think we got fireworks when we were kids? The suburb of "Taylor" was always called "Taylortucky" when I was a kid. Hell, we thought Copenhagen was imported from the South!
For reference: Urban Dictionary: TaylorTucky
C'mon, man!!! The sole purpose of my saying anything other than "Guilty dog barks first" here was to stir the pot!!!Doesn’t matter. You can’t give any hint that you were raised in or moved to Detroit, or embrace the Detroit area in any way… and then a call southerners “dum” unless you simply refuse to take a long hard look in the mirror. It would take million$ to convince me to live there.
That said, kudos to you for your subtle, self deprecating use of the spelling “dum.”
C'mon, man!!! The sole purpose of my saying anything other than "Guilty dog barks first" here was to stir the pot!!!
I'll bet it was "youse guys."On a job site in Albany Ga. about 1980, I had two carpenters from MacClenny Fl working. In the course of conversation or detail about the work I said "you guys" and they laughed at me. I asked "So, saying 'you guys' makes me a damned Yankee?" No, one of them said, "It makes you a god-damned Yankee".
Naw, youse guys--that's more of a NYC or Jersey thing...I even saw that in some Shakespeare text too, so there's another colloquial Elizabethan term (cockney or Scots / Irish?) still in use in parts of USA. I'm from W. NY State...a world away from that NYC gene pool. But 'you guys' is definitely Yankee talk.I'll bet it was "youse guys."
I think "you guys" is Yankee for "folks." The first time I used that word in an official letter, my commander thought is was slang or just southern edicashun. I took the time to show him the definition in a Webster dictionary and origins from the the German Volks and he wound up thinking the use was appropriate. He was surprised a Southern boy could use a dictionary or the word etymology in an English sentence. Then he found out I was a graduate engineer from an elite University; couldn't hardly believe it.Naw, youse guys--that's more of a NYC or Jersey thing...I even saw that in some Shakespeare text too, so there's another colloquial Elizabethan term (cockney or Scots / Irish?) still in use in parts of USA. I'm from W. NY State...a world away from that NYC gene pool. But 'you guys' is definitely Yankee talk.
“To the German People”I think "you guys" is Yankee for "folks." The first time I used that word in an official letter, my commander thought is was slang or just southern edicashun. I took the time to show him the definition in a Webster dictionary and origins from the the German Volks and he wound up thinking the use was appropriate. He was surprised a Southern boy could use a dictionary or the word etymology in an English sentence. Then he found out I was a graduate engineer from an elite University; couldn't hardly believe it.