Yat
Informant: Libby Flint, age 59, New Orleans resident of 36 years, originally from Upstate New York and Vermont. Collected May 22, 2016 and recorded on iphone.
Verbal Lore: folk speech, slang
English
United States of America
Context: a term to describe a New Orleans Accent, also used to describe native New Orleanians, especially those from St. Bernard parish. derives from the Phrase “Where Y’at?”
Transcript:
“The people that live in ‘The Parish’ are commonly referred to as ‘yats’ people calld yats are native New Orleanieans, Usually more blue collar Neighborhoods and the term derives from ‘Where Y’at’- Wjere are you going; what are you doing; ‘Where Y’at.’”
Collectors Commentary: (are there other informants for this?)
Key words: Yat, where Y’at?, St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans, accent