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Article #3565Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll
From: Mark Steger
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 17:12
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 17:12
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Rich White (rwhite@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com) wrote: > What's the proper spelling? > A. yall > B. ya'll > C. y'all > D. other (please specify) According to Mr. Language Person (Dave Barry), "the apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered signs to alert the reader that an "S" is coming up at the end of the word, as in: WE DO NOT ACCEPT PERSONAL CHECK'S or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM'S." Using this rule, B and C are both wrong and A is the proper spelling, since there is no "S" in yall at all. -- Mark Steger TI MSG ID: MJS Design Automation Division email: marks@dadd.ti.com Texas Instruments Incorporated Phone: 214-917-7934 MS 3937, PO Box 650311, Dallas, TX 75265 Fax: 214-917-7966
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103916,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-17 20:50:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!wotan.compaq.com!moxie!ernest!m2.dseg.ti.com!news.ti.com!barracuda.dadd.ti.com!atg1!marks From: marks@atg1 (Mark Steger) Newsgroups: tx.general,dfw.general Subject: Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll Followup-To: tx.general,dfw.general Date: 17 Oct 1994 17:12:58 GMT Organization: Design Automation Division, Texas Instruments. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <37ubaq$bac@barracuda.dadd.ti.com> References: <CxH0CM.BFM@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> Reply-To: marks@dadd.ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: atg1.dadd.ti.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]