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- From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Accent and Dialect, the politics there
- Message-ID: <28288@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:17:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.075941.3950@rdg.dec.com> <1992Nov13.151643.5399@bnrmtl.bnr.ca> <1992Nov16.092452.993@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1992Nov16.092452.993@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) writes:
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- ~I know a number of people of Anglo-Indian or Goan background
- ~and have noticed that they tend to use "you-all" for 2nd person
- ~plural quite consistently, a construction which I had
- ~previously associated with the southern USA.
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- "You all" ("y'all") is commonly used in S. US to indicate a singular person.
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