On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > I personally think "y'all" is a useful linguistic construct, which > otherwise is lacking from the English language. the German 'ihr' means > roughly the same thing as "y'all", and they use it quite a bit. I dunno, using "y'all" sounds kinda redneck-ish to me. Some digging through the dictionary and a thesaurus has led me to the word "assemblage", which I think describes this group well. Nice to hear from you Carl, how are you and your car today? -Brian