your ones - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
your ones, your uns pron phr Your family.
Ulst.:
1880 Patterson Antrim/Down Glossary 118 your uns = your family.
1993 Montgomery Barnish 56 your uns = your family.
U.S.:
1993 Weaver Scotch-Irish Speech 14 With appropriate sons and daughters, sometimes ‘your uns’ become ‘our uns’, as ‘we uns’ become ‘you uns’.
