The very first time I ever posted to you was about that word! I think you thought I was insane, but you did not back down.
Gosh, 2003!!
You have completely ignored the South's pleasing plural of the second person. YAWL.
As in "YAWL come on over to the house for some grits".
I am
You are
He is
We are
YAWL are
They are
I pride myself on not having a Virginia accent, but I am always caught out by my use of y'all.
Well, that and "might could have". I might could have done that.
and maybe "don;t pay him no never mind" gives me away.
Ok, so maybe I don't sound as cosmopolitan as I would like to think.
But YAWL is a wonderfully inclusive word.
To which you responded:
To pick a few nits, y'all is not used as a generic replacement for "one" - it's a way of addressing the people in front of you, literally "you all" not everyone in the world.
Signed, Native Texan
Y'all have a nice day now, y' heah?
Not knowing you yet, I was not intimidated:
Honeychile, it's the second person plural, and if a Southerner wants to address the entire world with it, he will. He can make it singular in a real burst of independence, or he can apply it indiscriminately to groups of coondogs or even inanimate objects.
He wouldn't use it to replace "one" because he wouldn't know what y'all were talking about.
I of course come from the elegant Virginian tradition of y'all, not the Texas DRAWL YAWL.
Rambi E Lee
Y'all have a nice day now, y' heah?
Y'all sound like Jed Clampitt |
