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(a)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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Matthew Saltzman
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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