Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll

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From: Andrew Hime
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:08

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In article <CxH0CM.BFM@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com>,
Rich White <rwhite@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> wrote:
>Fellow Texans,
>
>We have something of a debate raging at work regarding the Texas
>slangism for addressing a group of people so I thought maybe we
>could resolve the debate with an informal net poll.
>
>What's the proper spelling?
>
>A. yall
>B. ya'll
>C. y'all
>D. other (please specify)

There should be no dispute. As I learned in English classes, and as all
should know, you put the apostrophe where you take out the letters. Hence,
the proper spelling is y'all.

(Yes, we've actually discussed y'all in English classes.)

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