Possessive form of Y'ALL

[Elizabeth Gibbens]

In New Iberia, Louisiana, we said "y'all's."


--- Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU> wrote:
> I couldn't find a clip of this at espn.com. Do you
> happen to remember who
> the interviewer was? (The advantage of this sort of
> public utterance is
> that biographical, and, by inference, dialect
> background, information is
> potentially available.
>
> Laurence Horn said:
> >And on a related topic, a ESPN hockey interviewer
> after last night's
> >victory by the New Jersey Devils over the Colorado
> Avalanche in their
> >Stanley Cup finals game complimented Martin
> Brodeur, the winning
> >goalie, about the impressive nature of "you guys's
> [gaiz at z] defensive
> >effort".  The French Canadian interviewee, probably
> used to the full
> >range of variation in the New York metropolitan
> area, seemed unfazed
> >by the construction.
> --
> Alice Faber
> tel. (203) 865-6163
> Haskins Laboratories
> fax  (203) 865-8963
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> faber at haskins.yale.edu
> New Haven, CT 06511
afaber at wesleyan.edu


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