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Subject: [OM] Re: Y'all
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:32:06 -0400
Thanks Barry.  Now go have a sodie!

Earl

Barry B. Bean wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:57:34 -0400, Stephen Troy wrote:
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>>At 08:30 PM 06/06/2005 -0400, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>>>Actually, "Y'all" is never used to address an individual.  It's a lesson 
>>> my southern raised daughter continues to try and impress upon her 
>>>Yankee raised father... who makes this error all the time despite her 
>>>efforts at reforming me.
>>>
>>>Chuck Norcutt
>>>      
>>>
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>>Based on many trips to Tennessee and Kentucky, I would beg to differ.
>>Maybe it's different in the deep, deep south.
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>Having spent my entire life in the north end of the Delta and Tennessee, and 
>being a bona fide graduate of "The University of the South", I can assure you 
>that y'all is plural, and using it to refer to an 
>individual is a clear signal that you're either not from here, or you're 
>trying too hard. FWIW, my Mississippi girl bride agrees wholeheartedly. 
>
>So if'n y'all wonts to be fittin' in down heah, y'all beter'd be savin' the 
>y'all for times when y'all are commencin to refer to more'n one of us'n. 
>Elsewise, we might jes up and assume y'all ain't from heah.
>
>--
>Barry B. Bean
>Bean & Bean Cotton Company
>Peach Orchard, MO
>www.beancotton.com
>www.beanformissouri.org
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