RE: His/Her v. Their

Subject: RE: His/Her v. Their
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:20:59 -0700

Bill Swallow wrote:

> I've always been fond of "y'all" (singular) and "all y'all" (plural).
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > I greatly prefer "Youse Guys."

As far as colloquialisms go, "you'uns" is a good one, too. But we'uns done veered into the second person. Third person be the issue. :-)

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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References:
His/Her v. Their: From: Becca
RE: His/Her v. Their: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: His/Her v. Their: From: Peter Neilson
RE: His/Her v. Their: From: Cardimon, Craig
Re: His/Her v. Their: From: Bill Swallow

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