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From: williamb@netcom.com (Richard Belcher)
Subject: Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all
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Bob Cunningham (exw6sxq@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: runderhill@mail.sdsu.edu (Robert Underhill) wrote:

:      [...]

: >> Martin A. Mazur (mam@arlvax.arl.psu.edu) wrote:

:      [Bob Cunningham said:]

: >> : >  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.

:      That was, indeed, a comment that I made at the beginning of this
: thread.  I have now read over eighty articles that have been posted in
: the thread, and I would like to summarize my conclusions from reading
: all those articles as follows:

:      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.
So basically your saying Southerners are ignorant and don't know what 
they are talking about? I find this paternalistic attitude of 
Northerners irritating to say the least.

: --- : BC	| "Be not the first by 
whom the new is tried, : LA	|  Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
: 	|                 -- Alexander Pope
-- 
  People just don't seem to gavotte and mazurka with the spirit and grace 
that they used to.
                                          Richard Belcher
                                          williamb@netcom.com

