Yee ha!

corinthum kakearney at comcast.net
Sun Feb 13 23:08:27 UTC 2005


> Kelly, who would like to point out that the proper southern use of
> "ya'll" is as a second person singular pronoun. The plural form is
> "all ya'll". :)
> 
> Carolyn:
> 
> Ahem, this will be why you have
> 
> Y'all - the Magazine of Southern People, then?
> 
> and the Miriam Webster online American dictionary's listing says:
> 
> Main Entry: y'all 
> Pronunciation: 'yol'
> variant of YOU-ALL 

Okay, so I can't spell it.  :)  But regardless of what dictionaries
say, around here, y'all is definitely used to address a single person.

-Kelly, determined to stay as northern as possible, despite current
location.







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