what-all (1861)

[Wilson Gray]

Me, too. For some reason, for me, "who-all" sounds ordinary, whereas
"what-all" sounds hickish and old-fashioned.

-Wilson

On 1/31/08, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How about "who-all"? I use that.
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> On Jan 31, 2008 5:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It reminds me of Deacon Andy Griffith, as he was known back in the day
> > when he did stand-up. He uses "and I don't know what-all" in a
> > recitation in an exaggerated version of his native, North-Carolina
> > dialect called "What it was was football," which is/was? available
> > from iTunes.
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> > -Wilson
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> > On Jan 31, 2008 4:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > OED lacks an entry for this frequent U.S. colloquialism, which I've used
> > all my life.
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> > >   1861 in David Detzer _Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861_
> > (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004) 180: Plenty of good things such as chicken,
> > Biscuit, Butter, Eggs, Ham, Mutton, Honey & I don't know what-all.
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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