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Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
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Originally posted by Vaccinium
Don't get me wrong, I use it frequently (lived in N. Florida for 8 years and have a Texas-raised step-mother), as it's a great word. I just didn't realize that it's use stretched to NYC.
I don't know that it has. It might just be from all the country music to which I listen.

The jury's out.
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
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Originally posted by SexyTabby
It's funny on another (not so interesting site) I'm on they fuss at me for saying "y'all" all the time - here lots of others say it too
I don't understand why, it is a real word and has been used since words were first spoken. Damn uneducated people.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Kindred Kindred
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Don't get me wrong, I use it frequently (lived in N. Florida for 8 years and have a Texas-raised step-mother), as it's a great word. I just didn't realize that it's use stretched to NYC.
Y'all is most definitely not NY. Yous guys is NY.
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Don't get me wrong, I use it frequently (lived in N. Florida for 8 years and have a Texas-raised step-mother), as it's a great word. I just didn't realize that it's use stretched to NYC.
lol always thought it was a southern country thing myself.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
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Originally posted by Vaccinium
Why? Because "y'all" is plural, and "all y'all" makes it...more plural?
no. it's like this:

them can be used when you're talking about them three people over there.

but all them is like... ALL them people in canada.


just substitute y'all for them
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by Kindred
Y'all is most definitely not NY. Yous guys is NY.
Whachutalkinabout?
03/03/2011
Contributor: Kindred Kindred
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Whachutalkinabout?
Fuhgedaboudit.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Whachutalkinabout?
Yes, this is our real sign.

03/03/2011
Contributor: Alys Alys
Quote:
Originally posted by Kindred
Y'all is most definitely not NY. Yous guys is NY.
You guys is the VT version, but I've switched to y'all after my thirty minute lecture from my grandmother that she isn't a "guy" and never wants to be referred to as such. She's even lectured waiters who ask "What do you guys want?"
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Whachutalkinabout?
Forgetaboutit.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by SexyTabby
I know right rofl I say "alla y'all" all the time lmao
Oh yeah! And get me around the right crowd or family members and some lovely phrases find their way out too.

"I'll take a gander." (Not a goose!)

"It's over yonder."

"That's a big ol' {insert noun here}!"
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Oh yeah! And get me around the right crowd or family members and some lovely phrases find their way out too.

"I'll take a gander." (Not a goose!)

"It's over yonder."

"That's a big ol' {insert noun here}!"
You don't say "over thurrrrrrr'?

Maybe that's New Yorkish.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Why? Because "y'all" is plural, and "all y'all" makes it...more plural?
Yes! See? Not that difficult hehehe.
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
Yes, this is our real sign.

Love it.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Kindred Kindred
Quote:
Originally posted by Alys
You guys is the VT version, but I've switched to y'all after my thirty minute lecture from my grandmother that she isn't a "guy" and never wants to be referred to as such. She's even lectured waiters who ask "What do you guys want?"
No no, it's "Yous guys" (pronounced as "use guys," that's the NY double plural)
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
While I'm insulting everyone's word use, let me toss in this grenade:

SHERBET ONLY HAS ONE "R" IN IT, PEOPLE!
03/03/2011
Contributor: Alys Alys
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
While I'm insulting everyone's word use, let me toss in this grenade:

SHERBET ONLY HAS ONE "R" IN IT, PEOPLE!
And there's no 'g' in exit *nods sagely*
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Oh yeah! And get me around the right crowd or family members and some lovely phrases find their way out too.

"I'll take a gander." (Not a goose!)

"It's over yonder."

"That's a big ol' {insert noun here}!"
Oh you and me will get along real well we talk the same Course I try to hide it from time to time it always comes out lol
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
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Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
You don't say "over thurrrrrrr'?

Maybe that's New Yorkish.
Hehehe I don't think that's northern at all. But it's definitely common down here in the south.

But I am so guilty of saying, "Them there people..." But in professional or educational situations I become very, very educated standard American English.
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
While I'm insulting everyone's word use, let me toss in this grenade:

SHERBET ONLY HAS ONE "R" IN IT, PEOPLE!
wait... what?

03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Alys
And there's no 'g' in exit *nods sagely*
and there's no x in ask.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
wait... what?

Do you pronounce it "sherbet" or "sherbert" [ha!, spell-check flagged the latter]
03/03/2011
Contributor: Gary Gary
Quote:
Originally posted by Darling Jen
Awwww why is that horrific? *hides half of her family tree*
Back home they say it more like "you-unce" it's probably drawn out a bit more than "y'ins".
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
While I'm insulting everyone's word use, let me toss in this grenade:

SHERBET ONLY HAS ONE "R" IN IT, PEOPLE!
Actually, I learned a crazy thing while trying to write something on Eden once. Let me find the link for it again...

What do you call the part of a sink where the water comes out? Or maybe the thing on the side of a house where a hose connects?

I say "spicket". Well, at least I thought I did. Because when I tried to make sure I was spelling it right, I found this article in the JSTOR (any college student will recognize that site) about it. It's not "spicket" at all! Spigot??? Holy crap!
03/03/2011
Contributor: Vaccinium Vaccinium
To be fair, my wife makes fun of me all the time for saying "fur" rather than "for".
03/03/2011
Contributor: SexyTabby SexyTabby
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
and there's no x in ask.
ok that's one I don't do and the kids drive me crazy with it lol

Most of the rest I'm guilty of and I even go so far as to say "deed by God there Captn" in my slow southern drawl from time to time lol
03/03/2011
Contributor: ToyTimeTim ToyTimeTim
Quote:
Originally posted by DeliciousSurprise
wait... what?

I know right?

You know whats hard? Working in the south for three years, learning the southern drawl and then moving to the north. Y'all and eh in the same sentence gets some strange looks. Then I tell them I am a westerner. Great fun, but it can be scary, ya know?
03/03/2011
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Do you pronounce it "sherbet" or "sherbert" [ha!, spell-check flagged the latter]
sherbert.

like it's meant to be pronounced.

*eyeroll*
03/03/2011
Contributor: BBW Talks Toys BBW Talks Toys
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
"Y'all" is most definitely the exact thing I'd expect to hear out of a NYC-raised Jewish girl.
Yeah, isn't it youse.
03/03/2011
Contributor: Darling Jen Darling Jen
Quote:
Originally posted by Vaccinium
Do you pronounce it "sherbet" or "sherbert" [ha!, spell-check flagged the latter]
*hangs head* I pronounce it "sher-bert".

But if it makes up for it, I pronounce all words with French origins correct because of my language classes!


Another southernism I'm made fun of for: Southerns are not likely to pronounce "pin" and "pen" any differently. Northerners are.
03/03/2011