"we-all"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Hard to Google for, but I knew I was familiar with objective "we-all":
 
1896 Thomas Nelson Page _In Ole Virginia_ (N.Y.: Scribner's) 116: When he got 't in, he teck off he cap, an' walkin' 'bout half-way up to we all, he say [etc.]..."Mayn't I interduce myself?" says he, comin' up a little closer to we-all."
 
1902 Alice Caldwell Hegan _St. Nicholas_  (Dec.) 159: An' Marse Jim's house, what 's belonged to we-all sence de wah!
 
Surely DARE has more.
 
JL
 




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