Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)

BP Jonsson wrote:
> What about introducing the spelling _youl_?
But it's not pronounced /jul/.  I sometimes just write "yall", no
apostrophe.  A pet peeve of mine is the spelling "ya'll", which looks
like "ya will".  :-)  Probably indicates that it's been re-analyzed as a
single unanalyzable morpheme, so people know that there's supposed to be
an apostrophe, but can't remember where it should go.

> The apostrophe makes it look
> colloquial, somehow.  What is the possessive, BTW?
Y'all's.  I've also heard "y'all's's" (I guess that's how you'd spell
it) for the whatever the word is, the function of "mine", "yours", etc.
I've never heard "y'allselves", tho.  :-)

> >The 'thou'/'you' distinction is current in some rural areas of England as
> >well.
>
> The problem is using the correct verb form...
How so?

--
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men
believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of
the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu
wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv
wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun
ICQ: 18656696
AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor