A new one on me y'all guys

[Jonathan Lighter]

Never have I heard "y'all guys."

Of irrelevant interest, and possibly mentioned years ago, I did encounter
the weird spelling "ya'll" in freshman papers surprisingly often.

The only explanation I ever got was that "it just looks right."

JL

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:

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>  From a caller to the XM baseball channel this morning.
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> Pronouns accurate, the rest approximate: "They haven't been listening to
> y'all's show; y'all guys have been saying...."
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> I don't remember where the caller is from, but the accent was vaguely
> upper southern/south midlands-ish.
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