Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]

[Wilson Gray]

Your guys's side < your guys' side < your side X you guys's side < you
guys' side?

The unnecessarily-complicared derivation doesn't work in my dialect,
wherein a simple "y'all's side" suffices.

Which is not to claim that, e.g. "your all's side" is non-occurrent.

Sadly.









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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> "your guys's side" gets 60 hits on Google. I don't personally see anything
> wrong or odd about it. I guess you could say "y'all's side," but that
> doesn't work in my dialect....
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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> On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > As opposed to the simpler, "on _your_ side." Yes, I know that this
> > phenomenon - or should that be "phenomena"? - isn't new. But, WTF?
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> > --
> > -Wilson
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