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Subject:RE: Redneck step of the day... From:"Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHDB" <Darren -dot- Butler -dot- ctr -at- Robins -dot- af -dot- mil> To:"Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>, "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:10:46 -0500
>> Search thine hear and see if thou art with me.<<
"Make up yo mine boy, are ya fixin' to go wif'me er ya stayin'
put?
Dad'gummit, I think I need more sweet tea.
>>"y'all" may be a recent Americanism........it might possibly also go
back to something like "Ye all."<<
This supports my theory that southern English is just
18th-century English without the frilly underwear.
Seriously, I'd love it if a second-person plural pronoun such as y'all
or youse (sans stigma) could be adopted into technical publications.
There are instances when the use of one would be very economical for a
host of reasons, especially in regards to steps (Redneck or otherwise).
I think the word y'all is perfect but.....
-Darren
'and all this'here Slurvian English is drivin' my spell checker nuts, I
gotta stop!
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Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:45 AM
To: Nancy Allison
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Redneck step of the day...
Well, Nancy, being from Maine originally, I appreciate the further
color. And, yes, before reading the article, I'd never really considered
ye to be just plural, but neither can I say I'd pursued the subject
deeply enough to know one way or the other.
Since you enjoy Maine speech, you'd probably love E.B. White's essay,
appropriately titled "Maine Speech." I believe it's part of the
collection in "One Man's Meat." Definitely one of my favorite essays :)
Jim
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[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:38 AM
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Redneck step of the day...
On Dec 18, 2009, Pinkham, Jim <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote:
I remembered something as I read this Jim's remark. A friend of mine who
is From Away (did not grow up in Maine) has lived in the Maine coast for
many years. There is an ice cream place near her called Dorman's. She
told me that a friend of hers, an older man and lifelong Mainer, called
out to her "I seen ye putting the ice cream to ye over Dorman's!"
He was speaking of her alone, at least that's how I've always understood
the story. So, at least in mid-coast Maine, "ye" has a singular
application.
I was thinking, though, that while "y'all" may be a recent Americanism
(by recent, I mean the last 200-300 years), it might possibly also go
back to something like "Ye all." A quick googling of the term "ye all"
turns up what seem like examples of recent wordplay by individual
people, but also this listing:
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