Tailor Archive

oh, and by the way, before anyone else comments, i'm southern, it's perfectly acceptable for me to say ya'll.

Thanks a lot I also have mad libs up (and I have to get going on a new mad lib, I know....)

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Alliaya wrote:

oh, and by the way, before anyone else comments, i'm southern, it's perfectly acceptable for me to say ya'll.

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Sure it is, but you spelled it wrong

*whispers* It's y'all

Anabelle
-another southern girl

Message Edited by Anabelle on 02-21-2004 09:20 AM

/JoinsSouthernFest04

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Anabelle wrote:

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Alliaya wrote:

oh, and by the way, before anyone else comments, i'm southern, it's perfectly acceptable for me to say ya'll.

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Sure it is, but you spelled it wrong

*whispers* It's y'all

Anabelle
-another southern girl

Message Edited by Anabelle on 02-21-2004 09:20 AM

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/blush Soo, worried about making sure I used all the letters that I now must hang my head in shame!

I'm going to craft some daisey dukes now and drink some southern comfort, I'll be fine in a little while.

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Alliaya wrote:

oh, and by the way, before anyone else comments, i'm southern, it's perfectly acceptable for me to say ya'll.

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Alliaya wrote:

oh, and by the way, before anyone else comments, i'm southern, it's perfectly acceptable for me to say ya'll.

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Except that it's Y'all, as in "You all" or "you uns".

To be excruciatingly grammatically correct:

Y'all is a greeting to one person

Y'alls is a greeting to two people

and

Y'allses is a greeting to more than two people

Check this out:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_50.html

Wow, that map helps reinforce my theory of what counts as the south and what doesn't. See, I've always thought that "the south" only refers to parts of the country where you can go in any restaurant and order sweet tea. By that definition, the south stops once you're barely in the east part of Texas, southern Virginia, and northern Florida (I'm not sure what the rest of Florida is, but it's not really the south, my bf who grew up there completely agrees). In all other parts of the country, sweet tea is only available in Waffle House and a handful of southern-style restaurants. The waits in all other places actually try and convince you that they can bring you boring, unsweetened iced tea and you can put sugar in it and make it sweet. Which is a dirty lie. The "sweetner" works, but makes the tea taste funky, so most of us southerners just stick to soda when we're travelling.

The use of "y'all" on that map stretches sporadically beyond those borders, but that's what you'd expect dialect to do.

I have no idea what this has to do with tailoring, but it strikes me as funny just the same.

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Waffle House

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Dex1138 wrote:

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Waffle House

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/runs away screaming

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Oh, I know you didn't! You gotta show the love to any place who has their own theme songs on their jukebox...