"Our/us mum/mam" - was ...they're having a row etc....

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:04:36 -0500, "Django Cat" <nospam@please> wrote:

>the Omrud wrote:

........old thread stuff snipped

> It was that first-person plural possesive
>pronoun 'us' I was interested in, as in 'us mam'll kick us arses if
>we're home late'.

I was talking to someone the other day about the use of "our" to show family
kinship, which occurs in Yorkshire, at least.

So siblings and cousins refer to each other as "our Mary, "our Bill", etc., and
to their parents as "our Dad" and our Mum. The parents also refer to the kids
as "our", but not to each other in that way. Mum refers to Dad when talking to
the children as "your Dad", and Dad to Mum vice versa.

Where I came from South of Huddersfield, in the no-man's land between true West
Riding and South Yorkshire accents this "our" was rendered as "yar" (pronounced
r-less).
--
Jim
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reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
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