Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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 Go Marc!!! Henry