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Old Aug 27, 2013 | 11:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Michael
(the informal second person plural, roughly equivalent to "you guys" or "y'all" in US English)
Speaking of foreign languages, as a Canadian it took me three thrips to ATL to figure out that "y'all", which I had understood to be a contraction of "you all", was actually often used in the singular: as in one person greeting another, "How're y'all doin' this mornin'?" The plural of "y'all" seems to be "all y'all", as in one person greeting several others: "How're all y'all doin' this mornin'?"
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