Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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