Y'all. . .

[Bled Welder]

While Beastie Boys Sabotage is one of the preeminent songs of the last
twenty years, there appears to be some scholarly debate as to its lyrics,
especially regarding the most oft repeated line of the song.

I have always heard:

Listen all y'all, it's sabotage!

Others apparently hear Listen all of y'all, this is a sabotage, etc.

Clearly the latter is an absurdity on par with spelling y'all ya'll.

But anyway, the interesting thing to note may be that, of course, the Boys
are....straight outta Brooklyn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

(If any of the oldtimers here should listen to this energetic rukkuss--I
insist it be on maximum decibels...your ears will live, trust me.)


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dude, come on! It's "you all". Here in South Carolina, you wouldn't last a
> day without "ya"ll."
> Then there's "all ya'll."
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> in Florida, it's spelled "ya'll" at least used to be all over town,
>> which I think is meant to be short for "ya all" eliding the "a" of
>> all, which I found interesting because I'm sort of a word geek
>>
>
>
>
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