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From: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Second Person Plural Pronoun
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 21:10:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 21:10:07 1985
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In article <1554@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>>    Or the possessive plural second person form (from my stint in San
>>      Antonio):  Y'allses' (YAWL-ziz) -- as in "After downing fajitas and
>>      margeritas, we'll stop by y'allses' place for bunuelos and Lone Star."
>
>I think this is an artificial version from California!  Down here (well, in
>Georgia where I come from; here in Florida there are a variety of people)
>they just say y'all's.  I doubt they would say y'alls's, though it is true

>Shyy-Anzr:  J. Eric Roskos


Of course, in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma (which is, as Hoyt Axton 
pointed out, the cultural center of the universe - and by extension
the final authority on questions of proper usage) we recognize that
the proper form is, in fact, TWO words - "you all" and "you all`s",
as in:

"You all goin` to the prison rodeo in McAlester?"

"Naw, ain`t been worth seein` since they lost that bull rider in
 the Caddo County shoot out last year."

"Us neither.  Maybe we`ll just drop by you all`s and see how that
 new rig Kerr McGee is puttin` up by you is doin`.  Heard they
 hit 2000 feet and aint hit a drop o` earl."

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Bill Oliver