What is the language "British"?

Tue Aug 29 13:23:34 UTC 2006

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:29:15AM -0700, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Jack Gates" <jlgates at charter.net>
>>
>
>>
>> Then we can call ourselves US. The rest of all yawl are well all
>> yawl.
>
> Which is usually spelt "y'all". "Yawl" is a two masted fore-and-aft
> rig sailing vessel. If you ketch the difference.

Of course, "y'all" used to be vernacular plural for "you", but these days, 
"y'all" seems to be second person singular around here and the new plural 
form is "all y'all".

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