Tanner Lovelace wrote: > On 2/22/06, Pat Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Shortly after I moved to Dallas, TX I asked a lot of questions about the >> different forms of y'all... All the natives I talked to agreed with: > > Hahahaha! Dallas? Southern? Surely you jest. Texan, yes, but > southern? Doubtful... >
Funny, where I come from the south is anything not north of the Mason-Dixon line :). >> "y'all" seems to be much like "you" in that it can be both singular and >> plural, but it is most often plural. "All y'all" is always plural, and >> it really means to encompass the whole group, not just most of it (i >> suppose that makes it VERY plural? :p). > > As I said before, "y'all" is NEVER plural. They must have some > really funny ideas there in Dallas! :-P > So, you are saying you can't walk into a room an say "How y'all doin'?" to a small group of people? :) >> I also discovered "both y'all," which is a plural form referring to two >> and only two. You can appends an apostrophe "s" to any of these to make >> them possessive :). > > Now that sounds reasonable. > I reckon so! :) >> My other two favorite words I learned were "larapin" and "tump". >> "Larapin" apparently means "delicious" and "tumped" is apparently a >> combination of "tip" and "dump." > > Must be Texan speak because those aren't southern words. > I don't know much about "tump." I did, however, need to check with my friend Google to make sure I spelled "larapin" properly... Google didn't make me think it had anything to do with Texas, however... My friend who told me about this word was originally from a small town near Texarkana. When I asked one of my friends who grew up in Dallas about this word he explained to me that you'd likely only ever hear it in small backwater towns. I would tend to agree, since I actually heard the word used in a western just the other week (I believe it was on Bonanza, but I can't be sure :p). > Texas is first and foremost Texan, before southern and definitely before > american. Any language research done there will not yield true southern > information. > Now that sounds like it was spoken by a Texan :). > Alabama (Sweet Home!), Missississippi, Georgia (except Atlanta), > Tennessee and South Carolina, sure, but beyond that they get some > funny ideas... :-P > Hey, I work with what I've got :). Pat
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