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Subject:Re: Redneck step of the day... From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:08:36 +1100
On Dec 18, 2009 1:57AM, Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com wrote:
> The plural/singular y'all controversy has been around quite awhile.
> (There's even an ongoing spelling war. Lisa and I are in different
> camps.)
>
I haven't ever seen a controversy about the spelling
and not sure why "ya'll" would be defensible given
that the apostrophe is in place of missing letters,
which in this case would be for the rest of "you"
> While the "official" rule is to only use it in the plural sense, in the
> wild y'all is used in every sense. And it doesn't matter whether you're
> referring to a tree stump, "Y'all like to took my bumper off,
> dadgummit!"
>
True, but I don't think I've usually heard it used
directly to a singular person. I completely agree
that it can be used for inanimate objects, and that
"all y'all" is the intensifier form.
-- Janice, who used to live in Atlanta and still said
"y'all" when living in Israel and now while living in
Australia, much to the occasional confusion of the
natives :->
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