[Publib] "You Guys" & "Y'all"

[Margaret Neill]

Actually, for a group, it's "all y'all". 
Single or two-three people is "y'all". 
:) 

Margaret M. Neill, M.S.L.I.S. 
Operations Librarian- Native Texan
Thomas Branigan Memorial Library
200 E. Picacho Ave. 
Las Cruces, NM 88001
Office: (505) 528-4043
Fax: (505) 528-4030
mneill at las-cruces.org
 
"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting."
- Aldous Huxley 

-----Original Message-----
From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:04 AM
To: Bruce Bumbalough; Kathleen Horan; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] "You Guys" & "Y'all"

I think that "y'all" works quite well; I simply feel like a fake when I try to say it.  Just as the word "cool" doesn't emerge easily from my lips, except as, say, a word used to describe the weather.

john, still tie-less in bartonville, on a lovely, refreshingly cool summer day in central illinois

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From: Bruce Bumbalough [mailto:Bbumbalough at ci.grapevine.tx.us] 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:56 AM
To: John; Kathleen Horan; publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] "You Guys"

Well, this too old, no suit owning, non conference going stick in the mud of a librarian grew up in Michigan where you guys was the norm for all groups and then moved to Tennessee, Arkansas, Virginia and finally Texas among the south of the Mason-Dixon line extended states and he prefers y'all because it is a more accurate statement.

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