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Old 10-11-2013 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Roll Inverted and Pull
Look...yankee or not...please learn how to spell southern style. It`s y`all, not ya`ll. The contraction is to eliminate the "ou' in "you all". Y`all is a corruption of ole English "ye all" as spoken by early Scottish settlers to the South, my ancestors included. Y`all is always plural, speaking to more than three people, would be addressed as, "all y`all". End of lesson.

Well you must've gone to public skool then. The official spelling (again in East Tennessee) is ya'll.. and the plural is - all ya'll.

You probably don't believe that "Coke" is a generic term either.

Where do we get such men? "roll eyes"
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