OFF: Re: Pissed warblings

Paul Mather paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU
Sat Nov 1 23:16:10 EST 2003


On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:52:37AM -0000, Richard Lockwood wrote:

=> Back after two weeks in Tennessee (y'all)
[[...]]
=> Anyway, y'all (y'all)
=>
=> See y'all soon...

As a Brit living in the American South for many a year now, I have
learned one important grammatical lesson:

Y'all = singular
All y'all = plural

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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 deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
        --- Frank Vincent Zappa



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