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From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:32:11 GMT
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Carl Weidling <cpw@rahul.net> writes:

>In article <DMr430.32C@indep1.chi.il.us>,
>Clifton T. Sharp <clifto@indep1.chi.il.us> wrote:
>>And I reiterate ... that the usage of "How are y'all doing
>>today?" from one person to one other person is widespread and popular
>>throughout the South.
>>
>>I know it's a _single_ exception, but Gayle said "never"...
>>
>were a lot of transplanted Yankees.  My mother was born in Tennessee
>and raised in Georgia, my father was from Ohio, so, YOU decide on
>my credentials, but I think that the y'all in expressions like
>"How are y'all doing today?" is partly to ask about one's whole
>family, 

Yes, just what I was going to say.  A bit like our "'Ow ya goin'
mate, orright?" which *could* lead to a discourse on the wife's
migrane, the kids' measles, and the cat's kittens.  But usually 
doesn't.  :-)


Cheers,  Ian S.

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