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Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Well, crap.

Someone rolled a 7?

::dazed look::

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Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Well, crap.

More correctly---- "Way-yell, shee-yet!"

Clark wrote:

John Smith wrote in
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In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:
[snip]

I believe what you are trying to say is, "The fault belongs to
y'all", which is indeed possessive. But, my claim is that it should
be written, "It's y'alls fault". Just like you would write, "It's
his fault".

Roy is correct. I forgot about the contraction form. I just do not
use it enough.

Look y'all, y'all ain't sumtin ya can learn. Y'all have to grow up wit
it. Y'all got it?


Sounds like classic American speech that only classic Americans can speak -
much like the classic Americans portrayed in John Steinberg's classic novel
of the depression "The Grapes of Mud" starring Henry Fondue, Jane Darnwell,
and Butchie Carradine and directed by John Fjord:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxZ5xa3vbg

"You think this land is yer'in? Well it ain't yer'in."

A classic.

--
"Someday son, this awl will be yours."
(Carpenter addressing his son.)

John Smith writes:

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Y'all ("you all") is already plural. It's a regional accommodation made to
compensate for the disappearance of the true English singular second-person
pronoun (thou). It's popular in the southern parts of the U.S.

Other variants include "you guys," "youse," "all you," and so on.

Roy Smith writes:

Are you sure about Y'all's being possessive? I would have thought Y'alls
would be the possissive (by analogy to his, its, etc), with Y'all's being a
contraction for "Y'all is" (like he's and it's).

The apostrophe and 's' can mark both the possessive and the contraction with
"is," although the construction is normally plural. Since the whole concept
is non-standard, there are no specific rules.

One might reasonably ask why Y'all wouldn't take the second person singular
("are") ...

"Are" is both the singular and plural form for the second person in modern
English, since "you" is used for both singular and plural ("thou" having
largely disappeared in modern speech).

Mxsmanic wrote in
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John Smith writes:

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Y'all ("you all") is already plural. It's a regional accommodation
made to compensate for the disappearance of the true English singular
second-person pronoun (thou). It's popular in the southern parts of
the U.S.

Other variants include "you guys," "youse," "all you," and so on.


Wow, a regular scholar.

But wrong.

Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Roy Smith writes:

Are you sure about Y'all's being possessive? I would have thought
Y'alls would be the possissive (by analogy to his, its, etc), with
Y'all's being a contraction for "Y'all is" (like he's and it's).

The apostrophe and 's' can mark both the possessive and the
contraction with "is," although the construction is normally plural.
Since the whole concept is non-standard, there are no specific rules.

One might reasonably ask why Y'all wouldn't take the second person
singular ("are") ...

"Are" is both the singular and plural form for the second person in
modern English, since "you" is used for both singular and plural
("thou" having largely disappeared in modern speech).


Nope


No wonder you're starving




Bertie

Jim Logajan wrote in
:

Clark wrote:

John Smith wrote in
:

In article
,
Roy Smith wrote:
[snip]

I believe what you are trying to say is, "The fault belongs to
y'all", which is indeed possessive. But, my claim is that it
should be written, "It's y'alls fault". Just like you would write,
"It's his fault".

Roy is correct. I forgot about the contraction form. I just do not
use it enough.

Look y'all, y'all ain't sumtin ya can learn. Y'all have to grow up
wit it. Y'all got it?


Sounds like classic American speech that only classic Americans can
speak - much like the classic Americans portrayed in John Steinberg's
classic novel of the depression "The Grapes of Mud" starring Henry
Fondue, Jane Darnwell, and Butchie Carradine and directed by John
Fjord:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxZ5xa3vbg

"You think this land is yer'in? Well it ain't yer'in."

imagine if they were still aorund and on the net.

I bet they'd mis-spell tonuge all over the place.


Bertie

2 decades ago, alot of American car factories were shut down due to
the surge of Japanese cars and because of that alot of American
factories workers held resentment against Japanese cars, and the
situation only got better when Japanese automakers decide to open many
factories in America.

2 decades ago the Japanese got a strong foothold here because
Americans saw that the imports were well-made, tough and economical,
while the American product was mostly crap. Remember the Dodge Dart
and the K Car? The Japanese imports were a wake-up call to the Big
Three that our Detroit brothers were slow to respond to.

AJ wrote in news:615a2c9c-fa6c-4339-a9a2-
:

2 decades ago, alot of American car factories were shut down due to
the surge of Japanese cars and because of that alot of American
factories workers held resentment against Japanese cars, and the
situation only got better when Japanese automakers decide to open many
factories in America.

2 decades ago the Japanese got a strong foothold here because
Americans saw that the imports were well-made, tough and economical,
while the American product was mostly crap. Remember the Dodge Dart
and the K Car? The Japanese imports were a wake-up call to the Big
Three that our Detroit brothers were slow to respond to.




Old Dodge Darts were OK actually. Or was that your point?
I had a 62 Plymouth Valiant and it was damn near bulletproof. Relatively
cheap to run too.

Bertie