second-person pronouns redux

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ooooops! Not pedantic enough. As Michael Montgomery has pointed out, there
is an argument for ya'll.

>In a message dated 3/1/2000 11:14:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>BBriggs at LATTE.MEMPHIS.EDU writes:
>
><< everyone goes to great lengths to make a case for ya'll being
> either plural or singular, depending on their convictions, but the ever
> popular them has always fascinated me.   >>
>I hate to be pedantic, but the contraction is Y'ALL, not ya'll.