Monica Kochelee

My older sister and I like to tease each other from time to time.  Recently I sent her an email and used the slang word “y’all” in it.  In her reply, she told me I had spelled it wrong, where she lives they spell it “ya’ll.”  I replied back that when I was in grade school my English teacher told us that it was a slang word that only ignorant people used, (and then she went on a tirade about the word “ain’t”) and it was spelled “y’all” which is why I spell it that way! 

Well, ignorant or not, it is a speech pattern that folks in the southern parts of the USA use frequently.  Although I moved to New England and lived there for 29 years (Ayuh, I’ll go pahk the cah and then we can go to the hossback riding pahty!) I never COULD stop saying y’all!  I got teased a lot for that!  I guess you can take this girl out of the south, but you can’t take the south of of this girl!

Well, I just went to dictionary.com and THEY said it is correctly spelled “y’all”

So, nah nah nah nah nah big sis! (tee hee!)