Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Y'all quit pickin' on Marc! Why, he's gooder'n snuff, an' not near as dusty! Bubba - ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry Ambrose <digphoto@nashville.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Let's move on ? > >Excuse me? "Y'all" is the Southern English dialect second person plural > >pronoun. Until early modern times, English used "you" for second person > >plural (more than one) and "thee" for second person singular (one). > >"Thee", "thy", and "thine" fell out of use in the 1600's, though most of us > >still understand the useage. American southerners, being a cut above in > >linguistic precision, began using "y'all" to separate plural and singular. > > > >Perfectly good English and hardly perjorative in any sense. > > > >Marc > > Go Marc!!! > > Henry