On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Shawn Burns wrote: @> > 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. Most southerners I've spoken with seem to use it as a second person singular familiar, which is also something we're missing in our language since "thee" has fallen out of fashion. That isn't uniform, though; I bet it's regional.