Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!azure!michaelk From: michaelk@azure.UUCP (Mike Kersenbrock) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Second Person Plural Pronoun Message-ID: <442@azure.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 03:42:09 EDT Article-I.D.: azure.442 Posted: Thu Aug 29 03:42:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 08:49:14 EDT Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 20 > >Rick Lindsley writes: > >>why doesn't English have a plural second person? > > It does--"Ya'll". You must be from up north. :-) > >> > >>Rick Lindsley "Ya'll" is one of the few phrases I have kept when I moved to Oregon from North Carolina (I'm originally from Hawaii (but not "Hawaiian"), so no Southern Accent here). My occasional use of the word raises eyebrows, so I'm glad to see some appreciation of the phrase/word. See ya'll! Mike Kersenbrock Tektronix Software Development Products Aloha, Oregon "If I had a clever quote, I would have put it here" -Anonymous