More on singular y'all

Alice Faber faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Mon Mar 7 16:38:13 UTC 2005


In an online forum, from a native Nashvillite, now living in New England:

"Where I grew up y'all used to only one person hinted at
their size - think rude here. Love the southern way of
insulting a person right to their face and pretending
they hadn't said a thing."

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Alice Faber



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