>>>Small nitpick ...
>>>
>>>>"Y'all -have- looked better," Sam Guthrie agreed from the
>>>>doorway.
>>>
>>>As an editor, this one's a peeve of mine. "Y'all" is second-person
>>>plural.
>>
>>*tsk*
>>
>>In dialect, 'y'all' may be, and is, used either as a plural or a
>>singular.
>>
>>Y'all bein' in Texas, I'da thought ya'd know better. }:-{D
>>
>
>Who you talkin' to, son? There's only one of me over here. Y'all is
>a contraction of "you all" and is plural. Always has been. "All
>y'all" means "Each and every one of you." For further reference:
>
>http://www.bartleby.com/68/30/6630.html
>
>http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/4/4-694.html
>
>http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/drlang006.html
>
>It's plural.

That's nice.

All y'all can shut up about it now.

--G.
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