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Article #3614Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll
From: Peter Steiger
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:53
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:53
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Todd Nix (todd@cleo.abt.com) wrote:
> If you don't already know the answer to this question, then you
> shouldn't consider yourself a "Fellow Texan". ;}
In that case, you don't want to hear about all the arguments I, a
native Canadian, have had with my "native Texan" colleagues on that
subject over the last 20 years. Of course, these are people who
simply don't care about spelling one way or t'other <g>, so I guess
it's no surprise they can't spell regional idioms any better than
standard words of more than three letters (and some of them have
trouble correctly spelling words of three letters or less, to!)
This thread starting me wondering something else about "Y'all": Do
most people use it only for the plural, or do y'all typically address
one person ("Hey, Bubba, y'all wanna come to the tractor pull with me?")?
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errata
1) For my fellow Canadians, replace "about" with "aboot"
2) Yes, I know it should be "too". That was the POINT, Bubba.
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