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Article #3612Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll
From: Peter Steiger
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:40
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:40
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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) Ooooh, you touched a nerve (as I can see from the six responses that precede mine). "Y'all" is a contraction for "You all", and as we all know, the apostrophe indicates the position of the missing letters. Thus the "ou" is replaced, leaving us "Y'all". I don't mind slang, but poor grammar and spelling drive me up the wall.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,d605289c7b477bcd X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-13 11:00:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.uh.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!ns1.unicomp.net!ns1.unicomp.net!not-for-mail From: psteiger@ns1.unicomp.net (Peter Steiger) Newsgroups: tx.general,dfw.general Subject: Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll Followup-To: tx.general,dfw.general Date: 13 Oct 1994 12:40:25 -0500 Organization: UniComp Technologies International Corp -- Internet Service Lines: 15 Message-ID: <37jre9$9bo@ns1.unicomp.net> References: <CxH0CM.BFM@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]