End of ADS-L Digest - 15 May 1996 to 16 May 1996

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There are 10 messages totalling 221 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. singular "we" (2)

 2. interfacial engineering

 3. biff

 4. Yuz (3)

 5. RE> Yuz

 6. help subscribing to HEL-L (2)



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Date:  Thu, 16 May 1996 23:36:07 -0500

From:  Dan Goodman <goodman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FREENET.MSP.MN.US>

Subject: singular "we"



Wed, 8 May 1996 05:31:17 -0500

Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Re: singular "we"



>> I wonder if this is found elsewhere in the Upper Midwest?

>

>I thought singular "we" as in "we'll see you" was pretty common

>throughout the U.S. I've heard it compared with the use of "y'all"

>in set expressions like "y'all come back" when said to just one

>person. I think maybe Michael Montgomery has made such a comparison

>in one of his articles on "y'all."

>  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

I don't remember encountering it in other places I've lived: Ulster

County NY, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Did I miss it,

or have I managed (till moving to MPLS) to live in the only parts of

the US where this isn't common?



Meanwhile, elsewhere, a former and a current resident of Brooklyn are

discussing whether Brooklynites use "youse" as a singular.



Dan Goodman