> -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Brazee [mailto:howard at brazee.net] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:14 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: lazy pronounciation > > On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:32:36 -0500, <MedCat7 at aol.com> wrote: > > >> I think that's because we southerners (I'm assuming you're > referring > >> the US > >> South) tend to be lazy about our pronunciation anyway, > particularly > >> the vowels. > >> > > "Ya'll" "you all" "you guys" "all of you" > > When the rest of the country is content with "you" for > singular and plural, adding an extra bit for further > knowledge isn't being lazy. > > -- If it were the case that people in the south were only using "y'all" to indicate the plural...which from correspondence with people in Texas does not seem to be the case. I get called "y'all" frequently, even though they are only communicating with me, a single person. Shawn