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To: TigerClaws; Windflier

Round here “yall” is the simple plural. “Allayall” is the emphatic or inclusive plural. Yall refers to the two or three folks in front of you. Allayall means everyone in the group, not leaving anyone out And we don’t mess it up with apostrophes, either written or spoken..


35 posted on 07/21/2013 4:04:49 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: arthurus

My maternal grandfather was a Louisiana country boy, but he was very insistent that his daughters grew up speaking the Queen’s English.

Mom tells me that when they were little, he’d tell them “Don’t say y’all, say you all.”

;-)


50 posted on 07/21/2013 4:19:59 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: arthurus

Bingo! Moved to Alabama 40 years ago, just so I won’t have to worry about grammar.


95 posted on 07/21/2013 6:02:07 PM PDT by bamabound (teach them how to think, not what to think!)
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