Re: Texas Slang: A Net Poll

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From: Shirley R Mann
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 04:21

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: : > 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?")?

: yall can refer to a single person.  I've been in Texas all my life.

Nah!  if yer talkin' to one person....then it's 'ya'....Hey Bubba...ya 
wanna come to the tractor pull with me?

Hickism Rule #114

--
Toodles!

Shirley
(Transplanted Texan from West Virginia)

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