To: eartrumpet
Y’all is plural, not singular.
You all is singular.
To: cornfedcowboy
You is singular though occasionally a southerner with less than perfect grammar says yall.
Yall is plural. Y'all is written in some backwards corners of the Southland.
Allayall is the super plural. It means every last one of yall. Allayall is never used to address two individuals.
173 posted on
08/30/2015 12:08:37 PM PDT by
arthurus
(It's true.)
To: cornfedcowboy
No, it is plural.
It is simply a clarification of which sense of “you” is being used. In the King’s English they are exactly the same word but can be either singular or plural. Southerners merely emphasize it is the plural version.
As do, in worse for, NYers with “yous” and western PAs with “younz” (you-uns, like young-uns).
190 posted on
08/30/2015 12:20:35 PM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: cornfedcowboy
How about “younz?” Heard of that one?
281 posted on
08/30/2015 2:53:52 PM PDT by
Fungi
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