Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll

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From: J.Sanford
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 15:01

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In article <37jpi0$naa@hermes.unt.edu> hime@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Andrew Hime) writes:
>From: hime@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Andrew Hime)
>Subject: Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll
>Date: 13 Oct 1994 17:08:16 GMT

>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)




The correct spelling is "you all" pronounced " u awl"

J.Sanford - An Original Texas.

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