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Maybe it’s time for us to return to our roots and learn a thing or two. After all, German is basically Old English with a funny accent, right? This is surprisingly true, but the retrofit doesn’t quite work; they have Du (informal) and Sie (formal) for “you” but a separate word entirely for “y’all”: Ihr.
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www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/16/youse-yall-and...
www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/04/16/youse-yall-and-other-confusions-of-modern-english/
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Y'all - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Y'all , formerly spelled " You-all '", is a contraction of the phrase "you all", and is pronounced as one syllable. It is used as a plural second-person pronoun. Commonly believed to have originate...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'all
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You - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You (stressed /ˈjuː/ ; unstressed ) is the second-person personal pronoun in Modern English. Ye was the original nominative form; the oblique/objective form is you (functioning origin...
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It comes from dialects of American English from the South. Besides being ungrammatical, this expression doesn't really make much sense. "You" by itself is quite enough, and saying Y'all (you all or all of you) makes no sense when ...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090105122...
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; or? OR?; The 10 cans of Diet on my desk say otherwise! There is no replacement for all o'y'all, "proper" English or not. And I have a tendency to be at least somewhat of a Grammar Nazi. KLT...
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Hey, y'all. Please note where I placed my apostrophe in the word "y'all." ... I just don't put the apostrophe at all. I like it better without it. To me it isn't a contraction of "you and all" it is a plural of the word "you." ; Hey if black people can create Ebonics, I can tweak the English language southern style can't I?
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earlcapps.blogspot.com/2007/05/proper-spelling-of-yall....
earlcapps.blogspot.com/2007/05/proper-spelling-of-yall.html
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On a flight from San Diego to the East Coast a few years ago, a flight attendent struck up a conversation with me after she heard me say you all in a conversation. ... A Newer Trait of English Adjectives? » ... “It is the proper address a single individual . . .when . . . the specific comments are applicable to more than...
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www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=16
www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=16
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When I first joined reddit about two years ago, it was a pretty cool place where people upmodded good articles about science, lisp, history, startups, world news, math etc. Then came the second period of reddit, ... All in all, reddit quality is free falling, so I recommend any Digg user to go back where he came from.
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He can cut no more than 5 percent of spending from any department without legislative approval. No more than 5 percent can be cut until that amount is applied to all departments. Once that’s done, further spending reductions must be applied equally among all departments.
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yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/
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