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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Who really use "y'all"?

It seems there's a lot of wrist slapping going on on grammar websites when folks try to use "y'all", and such, but what is the world coming to when the same words are used by a lexicographer to address a conference audience?

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/06/10/wordnik/
  

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What, indeed? Some of my dearest loved ones use the word.

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What, indeed? Some of my dearest loved ones use the word.
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Including you. MrM?
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Only when I'm schmoozing in Dixie.
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