Thank you all for your replies. Basically I find there is no town called
Yak. But the "colloquialism" explanation could be the most plausible.
Steve and Bunny
Binns Genealogy CD Series
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothy C. White" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:51 AM
Subject: [VAROOTS] FW: Virgina town question
> The native tidewater Virgians do have their own colloquialism. Not quite
> as
> thick as the Georgetown, SC area but similar. House was "Huse" About was
> "aboot? And it was like Boston with aunt - "Awnt". I lived in Newport
> News
> when Herbert Hoover was president (yes, that long ago)> He gave the
> address
> at Yorktown's sesquicentennial celebration. Before you got used to it you
> had a hard time understanding a lot of the words they spoke. However, the
> school system was superb (in that area, anyway.) Very advanced to much of
> the south at that time.
>
> Dorothy C. White
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> 804.795.4296
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> Behalf Of herb_316
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Virgina town question
>
>
> Dear Steve and Bunny,
>
> I( lived in VA about 42 yeqrs and the old times said "Yak" VA when they
> were
> talking about York, Virginia where Cornwallis surrendered at the mouth of
> the "Yak", York River,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Yvonne and Steve
> To: [log in to unmask] ; [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Virgina town question
>
>
> I received this email and do not know the answer. Does anyone know? And
> what search tool do you use to find out about old towns in Virginia?
>
> Steve and Bunny
> Binns Genealogy CD Series
> http://www.BinnsGenealogy.com/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pat Brown
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:05 AM
> Subject: Virgina
>
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am resending this email. I was not sure if my email address was
> listed.
>
> Was there ever a town called Yak Virgina?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time.
>
> Pat Brown
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