Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Let's move on ?
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 07:35:58 -0400

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