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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