Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive

[Beverly Flanigan]

I didn't know that!  And I watch the Lehrer Report religiously....  BTW, I
just asked a local informant if he knows the genitive form, and he accepted
it immediately--for at least two counties in SE Ohio.  One of our
secretaries also thought her mother might say it--but it was "real hicky"
to her own ears!  Yeah, sure.

At 02:24 PM 10/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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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