singular y'all

Philip E. Cleary philipcleary at RCN.COM
Thu Sep 28 18:56:48 UTC 2006


>
> The Three Stooges line also appears to be a good example of Hollywood's
> psuedodialectal use of singular "y'all"

I recently attended an event at which the speaker, a Texan, said that he
wanted to welcome "all of you all."

Phil Cleary

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