Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:33:43 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
> Indeed.  At the very least dropping the apostrophe from
> "y'all" would spare us from the horrible "ya'll", which I see
> far too often. :)
I think the apostophro.. ... apostrophe is _supposed_ to be dropped for
the contraction <yall're>.  (I think there's a rule in English that
prohibits multiple apostrophes in a word, which is why Lewis Carroll's
<ca'n't> looks so weird--he explains it as the <n't> is for <not>, so
where does the <n> from <can> go?)

And <ya'll> isnt horrible when used properly, viz. for what ya'll do when
building contractions with ya.




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