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Re: second person plural

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Subject: Re: second person plural
From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 06:01:49 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201030936480.871-100000 at inch_interchange.ubc.ca>

Good gravy, I just remembered another expression I use sometimes -- while
"y'all" is the more common term, for me, I do sometimes use "you lot",
which I picked up in England when I took an archaeology course there in
1994.  I much prefer both of these to "youse", "you guys", etc.

--- 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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