Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 20:15:50 -0500

From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: Re: singular y'all



As a native Okie, I must object to being left out of the count.

After all, not all the South is "deep South."



Probably I shouldn't say I don't count Oklahoma at all. I count it

as sort of an interesting peripheral area...



In your Oklahoma experiences, have you ever heard a singular "y'all,"

Jeutonne? Like a biologist friend who keeps chasing some kind of

elusive woodpecker without luck, I've been searching for a singular

"y'all" for a good while now. No luck so far.



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

53 years in the South, most of them in the Real South, and

no encounter yet with singular "y'all"