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From: phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom)
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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Matthew L Miller (libmlm@curly.cc.emory.edu) wrote:
: Martin A. Mazur (mam@arlvax.arl.psu.edu) wrote:
: : >point.  The outcome of the thread was that some Southerners do indeed
: : >use "you all" and "y'all" in the singular even though many other
: : >Southerners will vehemently deny that that is so.

: : They must be transplanted yankees, or embarrassed about their Southern-ness.

: Not necessarily...some of us are actually bright enough to realize that 
: "y'all" is a plural form.  I use it all the time, but I would never 
: use it to address a single person.  Maybe the people who are perceiving 
: (imagining?) this usage of "y'all" in the singular are the transplanted 
: yankees.  I can't remember ever having heard it used that way in 20 

I think that's what he meant.  Certainly, the immediate antecedent for 
"they" in Martin Mazur's post was "many other Southerners will vehemently 
deny...."

: years of life in N. Carolina and Georgia.

Well, I heard it once.  See my other message for details.

Peter

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