Talking Southern – Chillun and Young’uns

Talking Southern – Chillun and Young’uns

Your compiler is uncertain about the spelling of the first title word and is open to suggestions.  For those who do not recognize it, the term is the common Southern vernacular pronunciation for the word “children.”       Your compiler supposes it might be the way some Southerners actually pronounce the word, although in his own experience, it was always a term of affection or perhaps one for a mild parental warning shot, so to speak.   His own …