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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