Re: Austin, Utopia, Uglossia, and Bats.

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> > ya'll
>
> AAAAAAARGH!!!  It's *y'all*, NOT *ya'll*!  Sorry, wee little pet peeve
> of mine, that sometimes shows up in writing.  It's a contraction of "you
> all" not "ya will".  :-)  Actually, it's probably evidence that it's no
> longer processed as a contraction, and so people forget where the
> apostrophe should go.
Well, by those who use it, anyway.  I think she can be forgiven
for not knowing the minutiae of an English dialect spoken some
several thousand miles away. :)

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