To: Frank Sheed; Tax-chick; sitetest
I believe that's you'uns.
As in "Comp'ny's comin', you'uns best red up the table."
187 posted on
02/26/2008 10:13:49 AM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
(Credo ut intelligam. -- Anselm)
To: Mrs. Don-o; Frank Sheed; sitetest
Well, in the Really Rural South (say, 5 miles south of me :-), “y’all” is the second person singular, and “all y’all” is the second person plural.
188 posted on
02/26/2008 10:16:53 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't shoot! It might be a lemur!)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Always sounded like YOONS to me but you are undoubtedly correct.
I am not scoffing. I am constantly being corrected for referring to meself as “meself.”
;-o)
189 posted on
02/26/2008 10:19:08 AM PST by
Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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