Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:06 AM 6/13/99 -0700, Guy Bennett wrote: > >did you hear ['you all' could be seen as having a slightly pejorative >resonance in this context] Excuse me? "Y'all" is the Southern English dialect second person plural pronoun. Until early modern times, English used "you" for second person plural (more than one) and "thee" for second person singular (one). "Thee", "thy", and "thine" fell out of use in the 1600's, though most of us still understand the useage. American southerners, being a cut above in linguistic precision, began using "y'all" to separate plural and singular. Perfectly good English and hardly perjorative in any sense. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!