A new one on me y'all guys

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Below are excerpts from a book dated 1934 that contains multiple
instances of "ya all" and "ya'll", but they are not on the same page.
They are in distant proximity. (Please double-check for typos.)

Year: 1934
Title: Here are my people
Author: Arthur J. Burks
Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Database: HathiTrust full view

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b87016

[Begin raw excerpts]

p.74 - 1 matching term
    … told ya all I'm'a goin' ta about sayin' 'diff'. We ain't none'a
us got any too much eddication anyhow, but I know that th' word's
'difference,' an' if ya don't say it all I'm gonna slap ya, one'a
these days." Lee, just this year given a place at the table with the
men because Len had decided that a…


p.125 - 1 matching term
    …nt if ya all starve ! Well, Doctor, what's gonna happen ta Len?"
"He's going to be all right. He'll be coming along fine in a few
weeks, getting around almost as well as ever. Of course, he'll always,
after this, have to use crutches, but he'll get used to them in almost
no time ! It's just rheumati…


p.143 - 1 matching term
        …gs?" "Ya'll git a list, but it don't matter. Ask th' oper-
ator. She'll give ya th' right parties; but when she does ya gotta
take yer ear away from th' phone, fer when she buzzes in ya ear it
tickles like yer hand tickles when ya hit a rock with a baseball bat."
As soon as the man had gone, after g…

p.271 - 1 matching term
        …' it, ya'll find yerself takin' a man's larrupin'." I gasped
and trembled, knowing I was in the wrong—for a man had threatened to
thrash me.

[End excerpts]

Garson

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:16 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> The topic of this note is the spelling "ya'll". Below is an excerpt
> from a book dated 1898 that contains multiple instances of "ya all"
> and "ya'll" in close proximity. (Please double-check for typos.)
>
> Year : 1898
> Title: Wit, character, folklore & customs of the North Riding of
> Yorkshire: with a glossary of over 4,000 words and idioms now in use
> Author: Richard Blakeborough
> Publisher: Oxford University Press Warehouse, Henry Frowde, London
> Page: 314 and 315
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=JONZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ya+all%22#v=snippet&
>
> Please note that the 1750 date in the following excerpt is from the
> text and not from me.
>
> [Begin excerpt]
>
> COMIC SONG
> A Beautiful Boy
> [Date about 1750]
> ...
>
> Ah sed, 'Lasses, beware o' love's piercing darts,
> Foor feearful Ah be Ah s'all steeal all yer hearts;
> An' then, mah deear lasses, ya'll sob an' ya'll sigh,
> When you think o' mah charms, whahl ya'll langwish an' dee.
> Ah can kiss, bud Ah caan't wed ya all,
> Bud Ah wad if Ah mud, gert an' small;
> Ah lang for ti cuddle ya all,
>   For, ya ken, Ah's a beautiful boy.
>
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson

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