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Re: can't we just do 2001 again
i must agree with Peter, since i also grew up in Vancouver (surrey, actually, for those of you that care). I've always said it . . . it's just more convenient, especially as a waiter.
ken
FWIW, I say "y'all" all the time, and, by virtue of having lived my entire
life in Vancouver (except for one year in Poland when I was 6, and eight
months in Saskatchewan when I was 17), I don't have a Southern accent
either. I just say "y'all" because the English language needs a clearly
identifiable second-person-plural pronoun, similar to the distinction
between "tu" and "vous" in French, but right now, all we have is "you".
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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