->> ->> ya'll come back, heah?

->>  EC> That is the correct useage, and it survived for centuries in
->>  EC> rural areas, mountains, and the Southern United States.  But
->>  EC> now, if someone uses the second person plural, there will be
->>  EC> a snob nearby who won't understand and will take it as a sign
->>  EC> of a lack of education.  But we get our own snickers in when
->>  EC> the snob tries to mimic it and winds up incorrectly using
->>  EC> "ya'll" when referring to a single person.

->> since when has that been incorrect? many's the time that i
->> hear folk telling me, one individual, while on my way out the
->> door, "ya'll come back!"... is that a sign of lack of
->> education?  :wink:

 EC> Not uneducated.  Just fake-folksy.

what's fake about my 99 year old, retired school teacher, grandmother who
has spoken like that all her life?

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