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Subject: [Leica] Re: y'all come... y'hear
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:27:34 -0700

At 12:28 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Martin Howard wrote:
>Dan Post jotted down the following:
>>
>> Dan (Honey! would y'all git me a fresh straw fer mah mint julep? Thisun's
>> all soppy!) Post
>> 
>
>Hmm, I thought "y'all" was the _plural_ second person pronoun... ;)
>
>M.

Here we go folks, Merriam Webster's final word!

Main Entry: y'all
Pronunciation: 'yol
variant ofYOU-ALL 

Main Entry: you-all
Pronunciation: yü-'ol, 'yü-"; 'yol
Function: pronoun
Date: 1824
chiefly Southern : YOU -- usually used in addressing two or more persons or
sometimes one person as representing also another or others 

Jim