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To: HAL9000
"y'all" is collective. "all y'all" is plural.

And Y'all's is possesive.
Is that Y'all's house?

330 posted on 05/18/2004 1:39:27 PM PDT by Politically Correct
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To: Politically Correct

YALL and ALLAYALL. No apostrophe. The apostrophe is a yankee attempt to make words that sound foreign to them make some sort of yankee sense.


352 posted on 05/18/2004 2:40:26 PM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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