Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive

Donald M. Lance LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU
Tue Oct 17 19:24:31 UTC 2000


Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> What I suspect happened is that the transcribers, unfamiliar with
> "your-all's," assumed they had heard "you-all's" (perceiving the word in
> terms of the only form familiar throughout the country).  In fact, I had
> not heard the form at all until very recently,

You've heard it, Beverly, but didn't note it.  Jim Lehrer uses it regularly on the Evening
News.
DMLance



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