----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] Proper Texan grammer
>
> Y'all are a bit off-base here. Southern USA speech inflection derives
> largely from the Scotch-Irish, and so does "Y'all". The only other location
> this is/was in common usage is Ulster, Northern Ireland.
>
> Chip Stratton
>
I'm not sure if any other language other than modern english uses the same
word for the singular AND plural nominative, accusative and dative
second person personal pronoun. ( That is the word "You" ). Thats why
we've developed the You'se Guys and Y'all slang expressions to at least
distingiuish between singular and plural.
Mark Hammons
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