On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:14:51PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-10-07, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course, just to keep y'all on your toes, we Texans have not only > > construed "their" to singular, but also "you", and added a new > > plural "y'all". > > AFAICT, in many parts of "The South", y'all is now used in the > singular (e.g. "y'all" is used when addressing a single > person), and "all y'all" is the plural form used when > addressing a group of people collectively. > "What word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people?" http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_50.html A map from a US dialect survey. Click around for many more questions.
The question was a bit broken, it did not list "all y'all" and its most glaring omission was "yous guys" The Philly responders selected the next best option of "yous" It is a bit odd that You'uns, yins, and yous are confined to Pennsylvania and very distinct east-west regions inside PA at that (Pittsburgh vs Philly orbits). -jack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list