19th-century "y'all" again

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/15/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> On Dec. 30, Barry Popik alerted us to his new page on "y'all", which
> he has dated back to 1856-7, in Alfred W. Arrington's novel _The
> Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha, or Life Among the Lawless: A
> Tale of the Republic of Texas_.
>
> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/yall/
>
> Languagehat <http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002652.php> has
> linked to a Dec. 25 post on David Parker's "Another History Blog",
> which trumpets an 1858 cite from "Mozis Addums" aka George William
> Bagby (Barry mentioned later cites by Bagby):
>
> http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-than-yall-wanted-to-now-about-yall.html

David Parker bows before the awesome power of Barry Popik:

http://anotherhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/beat-at-my-own-game_15.html


--Ben

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