What's the Possessive of Y'all? (Minicast) - 8 July 2010
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🗓️ 8 July 2010
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| 0:23.8 | Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop-cast from Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett. I have a question for |
| 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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