Yo, Have You All Heard 'We All'?

[Wilson Gray]

Well, just between you and I, that may be a hypercorrection. I'm
positive that I've never heard "WE-all," though I have, of course,
heard "YOU-all" as well as "we ALL" and "you ALL."

Naturally, I don't pretend to speak for the entire English-speaking community.

-Wilson

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:55 PM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> As the Beatles put it years aga, "We all live in a yellow submarine." The
> only thing odd about the sentence in question is that it doesn't say "us all"!
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> In a message dated 8/13/08 2:15:02 PM, cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET writes:
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>> Harlem's Congressman Charlie Rangel was near his
>> rent-subsidized home yesterday to brag how he
>> helped preserve nearly 400 other subsidized
>> apartments in his neighborhood. Some onlookers,
>> egged on by the NYT, were more interested in
>> criticizing him for hogging three way-below-
>> market-value apartments when, without a doubt,
>> he could afford to pay full-whack rents.
>> One paragraph of today's NYT story put it thusly:
>> One 58-year-old woman, who has lived at Canaan IV for 12 years, called the
>> situation "an injustice." Another, who is 50 and has been in the building
>> since 1994, said that the congressman "wants we all to think that he's there
>> for the people, but deep down inside, he doesn't care."
>> ---
>> "We all"? Is that the way Vern Ackular usually puts it? Or is that simply
>> one of Les Common's peculiarities?
>> dh
>>
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