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Y'all's sprawl. Linguists study the spread of a Southern term
Houston Chronicle/Columbia News Service ^
| Feb. 19, 2005
| MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF
Posted on 02/20/2005 7:45:38 PM PST by bayourod
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To: Graybeard58
At least you didn't zot her.
To: Graybeard58; cripplecreek; annyokie
And how could I forget 'bless your heart'
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:02:12 PM PST
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cripplecreek
didja bring yer truck widjadidja? mayonnaise: "Mayonnaise a lot of people here."
aorta: "Aorta cut that grass pretty soon."
initiate: "My wife ate a hamburger initiate two bags of chips."
To: bayourod
We lived in Pittsburgh and moved to Mississippi when my daughter was two years old. Two years later we moved back. My daughter was playing with some friends and one said "Ye'nz come here." (a slang for you, plural) She looked at her and very seriously told her..."It's not ye'nz - it's y'all!" She learned English well in the south!
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:02:13 PM PST
by
CitizenM
("...pacifism is one of the greatest allies an aggressor can have!" -Patrick Henry)
To: sailork
--I've said y'all since I was a kid in Colorado and I dont remember ever being around any southerners who used the term.--
Maybe had to do with all them Texans who migrated to Colorado?
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:02:22 PM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: bayourod; stainlessbanner
If you don't say "Y'all" what do you say?
sometimes I say you all but usually y'all
SB ... didn't know if you had been pinged, by the time you get this, the south haters will have slithered out of their pit of vipers to attack us and our people.
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:03:44 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Death before dishonor!)
To: Larry Lucido
Usually on the side wall next to the china closet, just adjacent to the sideboard.
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:03:45 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(As truth and fiction blend in the Mixmaster of History almost any sauce can be made palatable.)
To: bayourod
To: yall
They're talking about you...
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:04:48 PM PST
by
null and void
(The thrill of victory, the agony of delete.)
To: Theresawithanh
As a Southern lady, I don't feel comfortable with "you guys". A guy is a guy...no way that could refer to me or to other females. I always wondered why people used that term. Y'all is either gender and sooooo easy to say!
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:04:51 PM PST
by
jch10
To: bayourod
If you don't say "Y'all" what do you say?
All Y'all
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:05:39 PM PST
by
deport
(Other states try to abolish the death penality, my state`s putting in an express lane."..TaterSalad)
To: stainlessbanner
Maybe a troll claiming to be the third cousin of the inventor of ya'll will show up too! LOL
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:05:57 PM PST
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: bayourod
The South will rise. . . Yo!
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:05:58 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: Ryan Spock
-- mayonnaise: "Mayonnaise a lot of people here."--
This doesn't work if you pronounce it in the New Orleans way:
May yo naiz...
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:05:59 PM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: TheBrotherhood
"I'm a native New Yorker and I've been saying "ya'll" since I was a kid. Not exactly in a country accent though." I lived in NY for 35 years and until recently, and I've never heard the expression ya'll.The correct expression is "you all." Ya'll is vulgar vernacular.
It is a contraction. How is it any more "vulgar" than your use of "I'm" in your first sentence?
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:06:03 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Rex Anderson
To: jch10
"You guys" ain't no way to address y'all!
To: bayourod
All y'alls are belong to us.
To: bayourod
If you don't say "Y'all" what do you say? "You muthaf***as."
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:08:14 PM PST
by
ScottFromSpokane
(http://drunkengop.blogspot.com/)
Hey, northerners -
All y'all's base are belong to us.
[grin]
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posted on
02/20/2005 8:09:11 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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