y'all emersonjay the horizon seemed to encircle me, creating a wheat-color'd prison for my being. the sun had reached its' apogee, and the wheat seem'd to wave gently in the convectional pulsations. a single brown verticality passed into the circle, and was preceeded by a dusty chevy (Ford was not tolerated round here) missing several panels but thoughtfully replaced with similar years' hand-me-downs. color matching was for the city boys. "y'all need a ride?" it was true. "yes." 010601 ... unique butterfly that's a word people in minnesota don't use on a regular basis. unlike people in the south. 010602 ... CheapVodka Whelp, I'm from the South and I quite frequently use the word. It's one of my favorites. I come from New Orleans, Louisiana and I am proud of the word Y'all. But it massively pisses me off when someone spells it yall. There's an apostrophe dagnabit! *grr* 011102 ... nocturnal you rock on two accounts: 1) you know how to spell y'all. 2) you're from nola. if you don't mind me asking, from which part do you come? 011102 ... CheapVodka why I come straight from Metarie but now am living in the even more sad Slidell. Here in "the Dell" we hang in supermarkets, work at head shops, and smoke alot of pot. woohoo i wouldn't live anywhere else in the world, y'all 011102 ... nocturnal (upt 4 life yo) so you're a liar. metarie's not new orleans...old metarie maybe, but even that's iffy. sorry about the slidell thing. you should move back to nola and reside uptown. that's where all the fun is. 011102 ... whoknows im from nc but going to school in ny. i miss hearing the word yall (i know how to spell it... i just dont use apostrophes when im typing. dont capitalize either but you prolly noticed that already) 011102 ... CheapVodka pssh 011102 ... splinken because there is no separate plural form of "you" --- and Southerners are practical. 030328 ... User24 apparently, there are 13 spellings of this word.. 030810 ... FireNRoses yous everyone knows that to makes something plural you just add an "s" 030810 ... oldephebe ya'll - also part of the African American argot, that abhorrent contraction sifted down through the decades, bequeathed to us by our ancestors who had the misfortune of being indentured to a life of inextricable harrow - anyway the whole ya'll thing is a pretty resilient linguistic artifact in that some african americans who have never ventured benath the mason dixon use these expressions from ante-bellum antiquity without even thinking of their dissonance, and their odious origins - when I lived in rural PA we, well no not me but some of my more agrarian and blue collar friends used the term,"hey yous guys!" boy I cannot get that phrase out of my head "in the shale curtain of dreams" brilliant! no those our not my words - I forget wich charmed iron flower had posted that evocative line - can ya'll help figure that out? i'm fixin to get real gastronomically intimate with some fatback and corn cakes slathered in honey maple syrup. Thems vittles just approaches the apex of the southern/african amercian peasant cuisine - thas' good eatin' ... 030810 ... oldephebe aw shucks.. 030821 ... mt i use this word from necessity, rather like an expansive and encompassing hand gesture. "you" just doesn't do it for a group. 040102 ... coolsoundingme likely the first stage in the downfall of language. no matter how hard you try, this is not a word that should be spoken by anyone. at least w'all with self respect thing so 070514 ... defkon1 see african_american 070605 ... yoink i fucking hate texas 071112 ... somebody I always think people are saying "yell" with the phoenetic of an upside-down e. "Come back now; yell 'here!'" Huh? ... Ah! 071112 ... hsg sandys from texass 080717 what's it to you? who go blather from