"Y'all" in Friday's New York Times

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Thu Dec 25 20:21:44 UTC 2003


In a message dated 11/29/03 12:00:48 PM, flanigan at OHIO.EDU writes:

<< and it was clear he
didn't know what Guy Bailey was talking about when he said "'you' was
originally plural, you know" (or words to that effect). >>

Most of us believe that Y'ALL still *IS* plural. Guy Bailey may have heard
pseudo-y'all from displaced crypto-Yankees, but that don't make it rahht.



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