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From: williamb@netcom.com (Richard Belcher)
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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: I don't think the experience of *not* ever having heard this usage is relevant 
: in the face of experience of *having* heard this usage.  

: As a solitary traveler exiting the premises, I have been told many a time
: "Y'all come back now" and this insistence from southerners that it doesn't 
: happen is tiresome in extreme.
  Actually this reply and means you and all your kin are welcome to come 
 back any time or did probably in the past :)
  
  And I see little reason for this bullying tone coming from the non- 
 southerners. If the southerners want to believe this then I don't think 
 your going to change any minds and disparaging remarks certainly won't.

-- 
  People just don't seem to gavotte and mazurka with the spirit and grace 
that they used to.
                                          Richard Belcher
                                          williamb@netcom.com

