In a message dated 9/26/99 3:11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, smercer@bledsoe.net writes: << Ooops is right Gail, I moved to TN 27 or so yrs ago from TX.. and I had to learn lots of new words, 'you'ens' was first and formost... LOL... I now am please to be the owner of a 2nd, & 3rd, vocabulary. Around here, we don't 'I swan', we 'I declare'... >> In my family there is a cousin named Ewing (pronounced You'en) and when there was a family gathering it was a hoot to watch him jump as one after another would ask something like "You'ens leaving now?" and he would answer with something like "No,I'm not" no matter to whom the question was directed. I doubt there was ever a Yankee named "You'se Guys" with a similar problem, but who knows. Gail