For what it's worth . . . I just got back from Virginia Beach. I posed the plural question to some natives. The consensus is that the plural form is: All y'all. Mark Browne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Lupfer" <tl at assimilated.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] stuck in windows hell >>>>> Lorry [Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:58:19PM -0600]: > Anyone miss me? no^H^Hof course! > 5) I grew up in the south and I can't stand "y'all" but what I can't > stand even more is when people misspell it "ya'll." In my opinion, a > separate "you" for plural and singular is not necessary. It isn't any > more confusing than saying "we" ("we" may or may not include "you") but > no one complains about that. I think it's funny that someone tried to > use "y'all" in the singular. hehe I would argue that it's "yall", as the apostrophe is well beyond the scope of the typical southern person. -- timothy r. lupfer tl at assimilated.org Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. -- Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list