A new one on me y'all guys

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> “Yessum,” Luster said. “Quit long time ago.”
> “Den ya'll go out do's a while,” she said. “I jes got Miss Cahline quiet now.”
> “Is we gwine to church?” Luster said.

If this sort of thing is really a problem for y'all, then I say that,
if Faulkner had had any kind of ear, he would have used the spelling,
"Yassum."

In Marshall, in ultra-nigrous speech, people would use "ya'm" - if
that's the correct spelling - in place of "yassum."

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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