It's interesting that the dialects are concerned over expressing the plural "you" but not standard English.> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:38:39 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Y'all and you guys> To: [log in to unmask]> > My Mom was from Western Pennsylvania. She would never think of > referring to the plural you as "you all," or as "y'all." To her, if > more than one of you were going somewhere, it would be, "Are y'uns > goin' dawntawn?" If it was a really big group, it would be "y'unses"> > > Warren> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Veit, Richard <[log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 1:57 pm> Subject: Y'all and you guys> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I had the reverse experience from the one> Bill Spruill quoted:> >  > > As> a native Southerner, I was amused (but not very surprised) to notice > that my> students in Michigan> have their own plural version as well – “you guys.” It’s> used for both men and women (so the “guys” part doesn’t have> its usual masculine connotation) and, as kind of a clencher for the > argument> that it’s acting as a unitary pronoun, the possessive in informal speech> is “you guys’s” (the last word sounds exactly like “guises”).> >  > > As a freshly transplanted Northerner in Wilmington, North> Carolina, thirty years ago, I was invited by my chair> to play tennis. Some confusion arose about which tennis balls on the > court> belonged to whom, and when the student on the adjacent court asked me, > “Y’all> got all y’all’s balls?” I knew I wasn’t in Iowa any more.> >  > > Dick Veit> > > > ________________________________> > > > > > Richard Veit> > Department of English> > University of North Carolina Wilmington> > > > > > > > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web > interface at:> http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html> and select "Join or leave the list"> > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web > interface at:> http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html> and select "Join or leave the list"> > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/> > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________> Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - > http://mail.aol.com> > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:> http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html> and select "Join or leave the list"> > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/
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