Or if you're Brandine, you tell Cletus, "You best bring 'em back where from ya got 'em."
Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
ABSOLUTELY!
Well, I'm a transplant from CA, but I've never heard "y'all" used to address an individual. I have, however, heard "all y'all" when addressing a large crowd.
In Spanish, "you" (singular) is "tu" (informal) or "usted" (formal) and "you" (plural) is "ustedes."
And the winner for most quotes and parens in an FR post....the envelope please....
And I'm stuned!
HELLOOOOOO....
I “only said” that....
rather than
I “said only” that....
.”awnt” as a pronunciation - it’s stilted. I never heard anyone say it until the past few years.
.T-boned is a common figure of speech? Not to me, it isn’t. Is that what the cops and insurance companies put on their accident reports? Why is it a meat comparison? The letter T itself is T-shaped.
Does the car that was hit broadside (what they used to call this kind of crash) have to have formed a curve around the perpendicular car in order for it to be a T-bone? And does the broadsiding car have to hit it exactly mid-length? What if it clips it closer to the front or back - why do news announcers still call that a “T-bone”?
.Homage was originally a French word a couple of hundred or more years ago, which has been adapted for American English usage - and it had been pronounced “HAWmuj” for many, many years before Hollywood started this silly pronunciation, probably by someone trying to show off a stilted French accent. Once again, to my ear, it sounds like a put-on affectation.
Physicality drives me crazy, as well as those who pronounce height “heith” and put 3 syllables on athlete.
Then you must absolutely despise that four letter word ath∙uh∙LET∙ik.
This is English - it doesn’t have to rhyme with those words at all. We spell lots of words unlike their pronunciation.
“ant” is correct. Saying “awnt” is like you’ve only seen the word spelled, but never heard it said out loud by anyone, especially Auntie Mame.
And the answer would be “to go” - as in “good to go.” Ugh!
What's next here, toe∙MAY∙toe v. toe∙MAH∙toe?
If ant or awnt bother you, don't come to Pennsylvania, where one can hear shanty as SHAN∙dee and mountain as MAO∙din.
I hear ya!
And I *smirk* when I see “ya’ll” instead of “y’all”
The word/”phrase” that bugs me the most:
a certain cuss word.
Sprinkled liberally throughout every-day teen lives, not to mention movies and TV.
Ha ha - it sounds like “we, the writers of this PSA, have given you your life and now we want it back!”
Does that word start with “f” and end with “k,” with an “uc” in the middle?
Yes.
I use it too much myself, and have to get out of it.
But I hate hearing people peppering their “normal” speech in public with it.
It’s 1 of the many things (along with charming things such as sagging huge pants) for which I feel like smacking the !$#$!$@# that are doing it in the malls and theaters. ;-)
Y’all yowls when the boat yaws....!!!
It’s just an acronym for friendship, understanding, caring and kindness. No need to be offended.
;O)
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