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From: "N.R. Mitchum" <aj404@mail.lafn.org>
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom) wrote:
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>Please tell us how "ya'll" is pronounced.  I don't see how it would be 
>pronounced differently from "y'all" and therefore regard it as a 
>misspelling.  The apostrophe, after all, stands in for the omitted 
>letters "ou":  you all --> y(ou) all --> y'all.
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Unless of course he intended to write "ya" + "all" and could therefore, 
by your own rule, contract it to "ya'll".  Then there's always "ya" + 
"will" which would produce the same contraction.

As for pronunciation, maybe it's distinct from "y'all" (spoken as a 
straightforward "yall") by coming out in that longer word "yaaooowl".  
Tell you the truth, I rather like this new spelling -- sounds and looks 
somehow more Southern than the traditional version.


---NRM  <aj404@lafn.org> :  Yaw yer yaller yawl, you!


