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keryx ([personal profile] keryx) wrote2008-11-22 06:36 pm
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a question of spelling preference

[Poll #1302360]

I've been told this is a US regional issue, but aside from a few people from Canada, the Northeast US and Louisiana who use the second, freakier spelling ("ya'll" - what's that, a contraction of "ya" and "all"?), most everyone else seems to use the other.

[identity profile] keryx.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
ya’ll pl.
(nonstandard) Common misspelling of y’all.


From your own link. Pfft. And hey, cool - apparently the Fireflyish use of it (as "you will") is established elsewhere, too.

[identity profile] quietdeath.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a misspelling though. It is just the way that where I lived in the South, we spelled it. I really beleive that it is such a localized trend that no one is really wrong. But I have go to say y'all just looks wrong to me.

[identity profile] keryx.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
But I have got to say y'all just looks wrong to me.

Because you're a fringe speller. ;)