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Re: ?Computerworld? article

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:03:41PM -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Mark Allen wrote:
> > Come on Rob if youse is gonna try t' speek Suthern, git it rite
> > Y'all=singular
> > Y'alls=plural
> You're wrong.  A true southerner never uses y'all in the singular.

Indeed not. Y'all came about because of confusion between the singular and
plural uses of the word "you". "You" works fine for the singular. "Y'all" is
the plural, and really large groups can be addressed as "all y'all".

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