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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Second Person Plural
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 12:26:32 EDT
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> >> Actually English *does* have a second person plural: it's "you."
> >
> >    Historically, yes. But presently, "you" functions primarily as
> >2nd person singular.

As any good southerner knows, the plural of "you" is "ya'll"
(contraction of "you all").
-- 
Suzanne Barnett

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