What is the language "British"?

Jack Gates jlgates at charter.net
Tue Aug 29 13:29:54 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:23, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:29:15AM -0700, jdow wrote:
> >
> > Which is usually spelt "y'all". "Yawl" is a two masted
> > fore-and-aft rig sailing vessel. If you ketch the difference.
>
> Of course, "y'all" used to be vernacular plural for "you", but
> these days, "y'all" seems to be second person singular around here
> and the new plural form is "all y'all".
>

Yup! just ask the locals that are born and educated here that is what 
they will tell you.  "Am fixin to go to Hotlanta y'all."

Matthew, you know all dirt roads lead to Clemson!  Just kidding!

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Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net




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