>Having lived in Texas for some years, I didn't see the multiple version
>of "y'all" used. "Y-all" was applied to individuals and/or groups
>indiscriminately. (01)
Yes. In fact, close observation suggests that
what it actually means is something like "as many
of you as wish to hear this", i.e. it is flexible
between "you", "all of you", and "any of you".
One includes oneself in the set of addressees by
responding to the sentence in which the y'all
occurs. This makes it a very polite and friendly
form of address, since it can be ignored without
giving offense, and the decision about whether
one is being addressed falls to the listener
rather than the speaker. Kind of a pull
technology for human conversation. (02)
Pat (03)
>As a native New Yorker, I thought "youse" was a similarly used term
>applicable to individuals or groups.
>
>Don Conklin
>Lockheed Martin
>
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>I've had it on pretty good authority that the plural of y'all is
>"all-y'all" as in "Why don't all-y'all come on down for some grits?"
>
>Dave McComb, President, Semantic Arts, Inc. www.semanticarts.com
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>Sowa
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>Chris,
>
>As a Pittsburgh native, I can fill in some details of the
>Pittsburgh dialect (which I heard, but never mastered
>because of conflict with my grandmother's Polish).
>
>CM> "y'all'll" is an authentic Texas double contraction, y'all!
> > My favorite is the 2nd-person plural possessive "y'all's",
> > as in "Do y'all want lemon in y'all's ice tea?" The only
> > other English 2nd-person plurals I know of are "youse" and
> > "you-uns" (and their variants like "yiz" and "yins"), but
> > I'm not sure if either accommodates the possessive -- can
> > any New England or Appalachian natives speak authoritatively
> > here?
>
>The Pittsburgh plural is halfway between "you-uns" and "yins".
>It has one syllable like "yins", but the vowel is pronounced
>with the tongue lower and farther back.
>
>My favorite contraction occurs in the following Pittsburghese
>sentence:
>
> "Whynchyuins kids red up the hahs while I go take a shahr?"
>
>The first word is a contraction of "Why-don't-you-ones".
>
>The verb "red up" means to "ready up". It occurs in some
>Scottish dialects and in some parts of Canada and Virginia
>as well as Western Pennsylvania.
>
>The diphthong /au/ in "house" and "shower" is pronounced
>as a long vowel, as in the "a" of "about", but lengthened
>for same duration as the diphthong in "house".
>
>And by the way, the Chicago plural of "you" is "yaz",
>with the same vowel as in the "a" of "about".
>
>John
>
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