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Re: OT: All'y'all's's's's'...

From:Joseph a.k.a Buck <zhosh@...>
Date:Saturday, May 14, 2005, 13:41
> humour. However, I wonder if anyone does so "straight", as it were.
:: shrug :: I grew up surrounded by speakers of this 'lect. The most I've heard with serious intent was /all y'all's/ (possessive of a 2p mass pronoun). I actually added /y'all/ back into my speech about 10 years ago because I was tired of English not having a definite 1p plural.