I’m sorry, the real perplexity was why I saw it as “northern” every time when I knew it was “‘nother.” Some day I’m going to find out exactly where my eyeballs are wired in and have the connection re-soldered.
Same here, except I was always seeing it as Norther Yinzer which made even less sense!
IMO the trigger problem was the lack of apostrophe:
'Nother Yinzer is a lot more correctly recognizable than is
Nother Yinzer. I think
'Nuther Yinzer would’ve worked even better. Prolly been more phonetically accurate too.
And still we have a problem. This OP, @Reeses_Monkey, seems addicted to usernames that need apostrophes they cannot have. “Reeses” is plural and “Monkey” is singular. Gaah!
Paging e_c_g: Do-over in Aisle 3. I say again, do-over in aisle 3. 
I tried to get Reese’s_Monkey but was told that Discourse doesn’t allow apostrophes. Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor must be grandfathered in.
Your username is Reeses_Monkey but your listed name is Reese’s Monkey, why Discourse won’t show the name is a bit of mystery.
For me it is username What_Exit but name of What Exit? which is of course correct.
Nope. Like you his username lacks an apostrophe: @Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor. His “listed name”, like yours, has the apostrophe.
What’s the difference between listed and user names? I only see the name next to my avatar and it’s missing the punctuation.
Click your avatar to open your contact card.
Then click the avatar on there to open your whole profile. Between thise two you’ll see what we see about you.
I grew up in Wheeling, WV, which is in the northern panhandle of WV. Culturally, Wheeling shares a lot with Pittsburgh, probably because it’s very easy to get from Wheeling to Pittsburgh via the interstates.
Wheeling is generally outside of what people think of as “yinzer” territory, but a lot of folks there do say “yinz”. The “yinz” use seems to stop at the Ohio River though, and if you go one county south from Wheeling the accent and culture starts to change to more southern WV style. So basically in the northern panhandle of WV “yinz” use is common, but in the rest of WV it’s not.
For those that aren’t aware, “yinz” is basically a contraction of “you-uns”. It is used a lot like the southern “y’all”.
Yinzers also have a grammatical oddity that I never realized was an oddity until someone mentioned it on the SDMB many years ago. I went for decades just thinking it was normal speech for everyone, just a bit informal and slangy. Yinzers will say “the car needs washed” instead of “the car needs to be washed” (we leave out the “to be” part). We’ll also say “the house needs cleaned” instead of “to be cleaned”, or we’ll say “the house needs redd up” if you really want to go hardcore yinzer. I don’t know how common “redd up” is outside of yinzer territory, but I think it is very rare elsewhere.
I did too. I just thought it meant he lived in Canada.
same.
I had no idea I’d been perplexing everyone. There should be a badge for that.
Perplexing each other is what we do.
I thought a Yinzer was sort of a kazoo, and we should start a band.
I have a feeling that a bagpipe & kazoo band would go over like a lead zeppelin. Good thing I play French horn and trumpet. We might have a fighting chance.