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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: y'all come... y'hear
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:28:13 -0700

Jim-
I checked with Miriam Webster- she's the wife of the local blacksmith and
Leica repairman, an' she allowed that she ain't never heard of you....!  :o}
Dan (I've got a lightning-like mind.... One flash, and it's gone!) Post

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: y'all come... y'hear


> 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