"alexy" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote:


The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines y'all as "YOU--usually used
in
addressing two or more persons or sometimes one person as representing
also
another or others".

Here's more of the entry from the online dictionary, which will
hopefully put to rest this silly notion that some GDYs have that y'all
can be singular:

:Regional Note: The single most famous feature of Southern United States
:dialects is the pronoun y'all, sometimes heard in its variant you-all.
:You-all functions with perfect grammatical regularity as a second person
lural pronoun, taking its own possessive you-all's (or less frequently,
:your-all's, where both parts of the word are inflected for possession):
:You-all's voices sound alike.

A different regional note: In Texas, y'all (NEVER you-all) is singular. No
self-respecting Texan would use y'all when talking to more than one person.
The plural form of "y'all" is "all y'all."

Gerry