A follow-up to my comment on “you guys” and “y’all” in A concentration of linguistic peeves.
I was in the Southern U.S. a few days ago, and heard a variant on “y’all” that was new to me — it quite made sense, given the structure of the language, but I just hadn’t heard it before.
A police officer said: “Y’all enjoy y’all-selves today!”
<grin>
I love language.
— Frenulum
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