Here you go, then.
I know you'll be all over it.
Good luck! (Ummm yeah, good luck would be NOT to win....)

Maybe we should all leave comments there about the quality of their giveaway selections.
SandRider wrote:I am hesitant to correct a man of your knowledge of the English Language,
but I believe there should be a hyphen in "da-yum".
If I am incorrect, my apoligies.
GamePlayer wrote:A friend of mine once visited Georgia and said the newspaper spelled out "You all" phonetically to "Ya'll" in print. He had only bad things to say about the place, so I never believed him, but I always wondered if it was true
y'all
you-all (yōō'ôl')
pron. Chiefly Southern U.S.
You. Used in addressing two or more people or referring to two or more people, one of whom is addressed.
The single most famous feature of Southern United States dialects is the pronoun y'all, sometimes heard in its variant you-all. You-all functions with perfect grammatical regularity as a second person plural pronoun, taking its own possessive you-all's (or less frequently, your-all's, where both parts of the word are inflected for possession): You-all's voices sound alike. Southerners do not, as is sometimes believed, use you-all or y'all for both singular and plural you. A single person may only be addressed as you-all if the speaker implies in the reference other persons not present: Did you-all [you and others] have dinner yet? You and you-all preserve the singular/plural distinction that English used to have in thou and ye, the subject forms of singular and plural you, respectively (thee and you were the singular and plural object forms). The distinction between singular thou/thee and plural ye/you began to blur as early as the 13th century, when the plural form was often used for the singular in formal contexts or to indicate politeness, much as the French use tu for singular and familiar "you," and vous for both plural and polite singular "you." In English, the object form you gradually came to be used in subject position as well, so that the four forms thou, thee, ye, and you collapsed into one form, you. Thou and thee were quite rare in educated speech in the 16th century, and they disappeared completely from standard English in the 18th. However, the distinction between singular and plural you is just as useful as that between other singular and plural pronoun forms, such as I and we. In addition to y'all, other forms for plural you include you-uns, youse, and you guys or youse guys. Youse is common in vernacular varieties in the Northeast, particularly in large cities such as New York and Boston, and is also common in Irish English. You-uns is found in western Pennsylvania and in the Appalachians and probably reflects the Scotch-Irish roots of many European settlers to these regions. You guys and youse guys appear to be newer innovations than the other dialectal forms of plural you. See Note at you-uns.
GamePlayer wrote:Yes, I know what "Y'all" is. I was just wondering if my friends story was true or urban legend.
GamePlayer wrote:That's more what I was looking for.
So, what's not to like about Georgia? You seem a'ight
"I said Georgia,
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind"
SandRider wrote:yeah, but you're in ATL. which, as you know, like all the
major urban centers in the South, (Houston&Birmingham&anyplace over 250K) aint really the south.
Gettin out in the countrysides a whole nother rodeo. (dependin on your color, I guess, too)
Omphalos wrote:I use y'all daily. Multiple times.
SandRider wrote:meant to add a comment for Freak, but forgot until the topic got bumped-
you had mentioned bad traffic and no public tranportation, so I just assumed you were somewhere in the city ....every now & then I have to go down to San Antonio. Horrible place now. The nearest Little Big Town to me is about 20 miles away, less than 100k population, and I don't care for it much. With the franchising of America and dilution of regional cultures, most major population centers feel & look the same to me now, no matter where they are.
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