What is the language "British"?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Aug 29 16:22:46 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:23, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>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".

Maybe over at Clemson, but that usage hasn't made it to North Central WV 
yet, Matthew.  Even that 'yawl' business was a new one for me.  Does that 
mean we're really really behind the times here?

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>
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