

| Subject: | Re: English 101-South: Y'all |
| From: | Bill Layton |
| Date: | Thu, 04 Aug 1994 08:09:48 -0500 (EST) |
Lewis Grizzard has a really funny bit on "HOW TO TALK LIKE A YANKEE" Many southern dialects [yes there's at least 3 distinct ones in Georgia alone] are such that the words come resonating out from your diaphram while yankee's talk through their nose. To talk like a yankee just say [thru your nose]"I'd like a bottle uh pop" as fasy as you can. As for you all and y'all where i grew up it was you -singular and you all or y'all plural.I recall this construction was also used by cicero in his orations. Bill [ 10 years now in a POW camp (pittsburgh)]
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