Timeline for What is the possessive form of "y'all"?
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| May 29, 2020 at 1:58 | comment | added | Mitch | 'standard' is not an appropriate word for this situation, better to ask what do people commonly use. The answer to that is a mix of 'your', 'yours', and 'y'alls'."Y'all's's" sounds like it shouldn't be a thing, yet, I feel like it's used. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 1:55 | history | protected | Mitch | ||
| Feb 1, 2013 at 18:36 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Oct 20, 2012 at 14:55 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2011 at 17:25 | vote | accept | Peter Olson | ||
| Jul 21, 2011 at 21:41 | comment | added | James | Say you divided a room of friends into two even groups. You turn to one group and ask "What are you half going to do today?" Do we now need to invent fake pronouns and possessive forms to deal with "you-half"? I suggest "yalf" and "yalf's". | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 21:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/94158354150199296 | ||
| Jul 21, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | jcolebrand | I would just ask someone "so are y'all going to the store then" knowing that it was only one person and only one person could possibly go. Kind of like "am I not going" but ... yeah. | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 21:02 | comment | added | Chad |
@jcolbrand I agree it refers the singular entity that represents a group. In addition it would be a contracted form of you all so the possesive would be your all. Though my cousins from Tennessee say y'all's. To me rhis is kind of like asking the the plural form of s'not (is not). There is no correct way to say something improperly.
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| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | Peter Olson | @jcolebrand When would you ever use y'all to refer to only one person? | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:54 | comment | added | jcolebrand | y'all is most assuredly not plural. I've now had several people tell me I'm wrong. Go figure. | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:49 | answer | added | jimreed | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:47 | comment | added | Peter Olson | @Jsolebrand Sorry, I meant possessive but wrote plural, which doesn't make sense anyways because y'all is already plural. It should be fixed now. | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:46 | history | edited | mmyers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:46 | history | edited | Peter Olson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | jcolebrand | Why are there two questions here that are widely divergent? Which would you like answered? | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:43 | comment | added | jcolebrand | Possible duplicate of: english.stackexchange.com/questions/8102/… | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 20:35 | history | asked | Peter Olson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |