FYI: I just caught myself saying "I'd appreciate it if y'all would hang out in the day room."
No, No, No! Y'all is not a word!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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The promise of living with hope and thanksgiving / Is born of our loving our friends and our labor. / The promise of growing with faith and with knowing / Is born of our sharing our love with our neighbor. / The promise of living, the promise of growing / Is born of our singing in joy and thanksgiving. // (Horace Everett, Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land")
The promise of living with hope and thanksgiving / Is born of our loving our friends and our labor. / The promise of growing with faith and with knowing / Is born of our sharing our love with our neighbor. / The promise of living, the promise of growing / Is born of our singing in joy and thanksgiving. // (Horace Everett, Aaron Copland's "The Tender Land")
2 comments:
SURE y'all is a word. Isn't that a contraction for you all or is it plural to include everyone? Not that it's right but I've used it for years. Yes, I've been called on it, too. But....guess it's all in the understanding of things, right!?
Y'all is certainly an acceptable word. It is even acceptable, in the right situation to omit the apostrophe and make it one long sylable... "yall". And, wouldn't it be horrible if we had to say "you all" or "all of you folks" or "everyone" when all we mean is "y'all".
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