Re: OT: All'y'all's's's's'...

Sai wrote:
> > Since I have never heard this from native speakers of the dialect,
> > I can only presume that it involves some kind of hypercorrection on
> > their part.
>
> Since I am not so... blessed as to be a native speaker of the dialect,
> I can say just that I find it amusing and hypercorrect for the sake of
> humor. However, I wonder if anyone does so "straight", as it were.
Oh, indeed they do.  It's just exceedingly rare.

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