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By the way, to give you some indication of how far this snobbery can go, my wife and I lived half our lives in Texas. Every time we went to a restaurant the wait staff would greet us by saying something like "How are y'all tonight" and "What can I get for y'all". If you hadn't guess, "Y'all" is a contraction for "You all". However, we often saw people writing it out as "Ya'll", which made absolutely sense to us al all. What is that a contraction for? "Ya will"?
Now obviously, "Y'all" isn't a word at all... but my pedantic nature simply won't accept the improper punctuation of this non-word!!!
Now obviously, "Y'all" isn't a word at all... but my pedantic nature simply won't accept the improper punctuation of this non-word!!!