To: TheBigB
Agreed. Singular person is still "you".
"Y'all" is reserved for the collective.
"Y'all's" is possesive for the collective.
Using "y'alls" as plural is just bad grammar in these parts.
90 posted on
05/18/2004 8:51:29 AM PDT by
GOP_Proud
(Those who preach tolerance seem to have the least for my views.)
To: GOP_Proud
My 17 year old son grew up despising the southern speech. He learned his talk habits from movies and suchlike. He and I drove out west and north for a couple of months through Ohio and Illinois and Oklahoma before we came back to the southland. Our first stop back in God's country for more than gas was at an all-night diner in Mississippi at 4 AM. We had been driving for 9 hours and were tired.
There were no other customers . The waitress sashayed over to where we sat, smiled, and said," Good morning, sugar, would yall like some breakfast?" in the very finest slow Mississippi accent and looked at my boy. He melted. Later he told me that was the sweetest sound he had ever heard. Sounded like he was home.
299 posted on
05/18/2004 12:48:19 PM PDT by
arthurus
(Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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