Yo, Have You All Heard 'We All'?

[Marc Velasco]

I've heard we all, similar to y'all (which I hear frequently), but only as a
one-off sort of usage (nonced?).

But I've never heard 'we all' as an object of a verb "so and so wants we all
to...".  I believe I heard the _we all_ as a straight subject.  At any rate,
when I heard _we all_ it was rare enough to perk my ears up.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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