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Old Fri Jun 17, 2005, 12:46pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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Originally posted by drothamel
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y'all (pronounced yall)-- Contraction of "you all."A collective pronoun used by Southerners and other people of proper upbringing to refer to a group of two or more people. For those of you living in New York or New Jersey, translate into "yous guys."
We used "youse guys" where I grew up on the south side of Chicago, too. Also - "jeet jet", which means "did you eat yet?"

We used to like to "hock a loogie", too.
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