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Subject:Re: Y'all listen up nau, yuh' hea' From:"Brian F. Gregg, N04-3A, ext. 2724" <bgregg -at- FOXBORO -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 24 Oct 1994 13:55:31 LCL
David Dubin intones:
>You, or "yew" as it is often pronounced, is used as the singular in many
>places across the south, even as y'all is used in others. And while I'm on
>my soap box, Those of y'all who criticize the way we speak must have never
>spent time in New Yoak City, upstate New Joisey, or the state of Maine,
>where one speaks through a closed mouth.
Would we New Englanders criticize? Our Boston accent is about as obvious as
you can get. One's accent is not indicative of one's intelligence, and
that's probably a good thing for us all.
