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[RC] re: ya'll vs. y'all endurance riders - Cindy Collins

What a fun conversation!  Interesting how even Southerners disagree on
some of this!  I was always taught to write it "y'all."  I was born and
reared in South Louisiana. Not sure how any of this applies to endurance,
but at least it's not LD!  Cindy


http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/yall.html

?How y?all doin??? If you are rendering this common Southernism in print,
be careful where you place the apostrophe, which stands for the second and
third letters in ?you.? Note that ?y?all? stands for ?you all? and is a
plural form. Individuals by themselves should not be addressed as ?y?all.?

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/23.html

y'all; you-all - pronoun. "Means 'all of you.' It is used in speaking to
two or more people, never to just one person except by DAMNYANKEES TRYING
TO BE CUTE (emphasis mine), or who don't know any better. Besides, 'you
all' is sanctioned by biblical use (Job 17:10). Grammatically speaking,
'ya'll' is known as the 'generous plural'' so is Yankee 'youse,' rural and
mountain 'you-uns,' and the interesting 'mongst-ye,' which used to be
heard in coastal North Carolina and Virginia." From "Southern Stuff:
Down-home Talk and Bodacious Lore from Deep in the Heart of Dixie" by
Mildred Jordan Brooks (Avon Books, New York, 1992).


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