What's the Possessive of Y'all? (minicast) - 8 July 2010

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🗓️ 8 July 2010

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0:40.7	you, do you use the word Y'all I asked because recently we had a call from
0:45.6	Haley in Fort Worth Texas. Haley said that she and her fellow Texans of course used
0:50.3	the word y'all all the time, but her question was, what is the correct possessive form of yall?
0:57.7	Is it yall's?
0:58.7	Or yall's's?
0:59.7	What do yall say?
1:01.7	Well, when it comes right down to it, that question turned out to be tougher
1:04.8	for us than we ever imagined. So I'll go ahead and warn you that if I sound a little
1:09.2	congested in this call, it was because I was getting over a cold. if I sound a little muddled well I'm just
1:15.2	going to blame that on the congestion. Anyway here's our conversation with Haley followed by a little
1:19.7	candid off-mike conversation with Grant and me. I think Yall is a great word. I use it all the time and I think
1:27.7	yall's's with apostrophe s is fine. What do you think?
1:31.0	Wait yall's's's?
1:32.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:33.7	with two S's?
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