Re: What is the language "British"?

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Jack Gates wrote:

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:23, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:29:15AM -0700, jdow wrote:

Which is usually spelt "y'all". "Yawl" is a two masted
fore-and-aft rig sailing vessel. If you ketch the difference.

Of course, "y'all" used to be vernacular plural for "you", but
these days, "y'all" seems to be second person singular around here
and the new plural form is "all y'all".


Yup! just ask the locals that are born and educated here that is what
they will tell you.  "Am fixin to go to Hotlanta y'all."

Matthew, you know all dirt roads lead to Clemson!  Just kidding!

That's OK, but the truth is: all roads with orange tiger paws painted on them do, in fact, lead to Clemson.

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs


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