Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:16:06 -0600

From: "DICK HEABERLIN, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY" DH12[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SWT.EDU

Subject: Re: 2 pl



From: Dick Heaberlin, dh12[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]swt.edu

English Department

Southwest Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas 78666 ll

Subject: All of y'all guys' comments



I'm from Southeast Texas-- Orange, Texas--cajun country,

where there are bukuz of us who, in the fifties, used

_ Y'all_ for the plural, and some few who used

_all of you_ for the plural. Still fewer were

occasionally heard to say _all of y'all_ and

_all of y'all's_. I occasionally here it hear in

central Texas, and I did once hear _all of Y'all guys'_

--a triple plural possessive.