Y'all, you all, or you guys?

[Bekah]

At the tender age of 16 I moved from North Dakota where we said "pop" to California where everyone in this area said "coke."     The area around Bakersfield may be "in" California,  but it's "of" Oklahoma - not so much these days and "soda" has crept in - but not "pop."  

Bekah 


On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I once asked for pop in upstate NY, and got a blank stare. Being from west of the Appalachians, I was at a loss for how to ask. When I finally stuttered out soda pop, the guy suddenly got it that I was asking where in the store to find the sodas.
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Missouri it's "you 'uns"
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> My husband grew up in Texas, but later his family moved around a lot. A couple of years ago, he encountered some drunken Texans in a bar, and they asked him to prove he was Texan by answering one question: What's the plural of "y'all?"  He passed the test easily. "All y'all."
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jun 6, 2013 11:02 AM
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Y'all, you all, or you guys?
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>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336660/Yall-you-guys-Dialect-maps-showcase-Americas-linguistic-divides.html
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>> You say tomato, I say soda. Or is it pop?
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>> http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/you-say-tomato-i-say-soda-or-is-it-pop/
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>> Pop
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>> http://www.popvssoda.com/
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