Just back from Charleston, S.C. and there was much to love about it. It was green, historic, fragrant, charming, and most of all during this cold, cold Wisconsin spring, it was warm.
Still, true to form, what I loved best was the language of the South. For instance, the words "civil war" are rarely if ever spoken by Charlestonians; instead those destructive years are known as "the War of Northern Aggression" or the less specific, more genteel "The Great Unpleasantness".
And then there's the singular, possessive and plural of the pronoun "you." They are, in order, "you all", "you all's", and "all you all". What fun!
So, go south when you get a chance and smell the jasmine, feel the warm sun beating down on you, enjoy fried green tomatoes, sweet tea and tupello honey, but at pain of a trip-half-done experience, don't forget to listen or you'll miss all the fun!
PS: Thanks for sticking with It Was a Cold and Stormy Night when I haven't posted anything for awhile. My excuse is mostly time, but I have written two posts that have not uploaded successfully. Let's see if we all can't get back on track with this post. I appreciate your support . . .
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Having lived in Fort Worth, Texas; Eden, North Carolina; and Albany, Georgia I can definitively say that the word you were referring to is Y’ALL. It is used in many ways such as when we up North would say “Hey you guys let’s have a soda” but down South you would say “Hey Y’all lets have a Dr. Pepper”. I loved that word it was so simple.
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