Thursday

[hobbitomm]

Due to general being mucked around, I won't be getting Thursday afternoon off, so I won't be able to join y'awl for lunch. :(

Comments

[gypsy0131.livejournal.com]

That makes two of us who will be working. I will be trawling the library for legislation for the students to read and digest, photocopying it, and then conducting two tutorials. Misery loves company...

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I went and picked up the article for you today that had been torn out of the 1957 Public Health Journal. I skimmed it and it said 'Continued in another issue'. So, I got the library to search 'Oldmedline' and found the reference.

And guess what...?

Yep, it had been torn out too! They have it on order.

[gypsy0131.livejournal.com]

Must be quite "hot" stuff if the censors keep pulling them out. As to the other articles that you *do* have, could I trouble you to mail them to me here in St A??? If you sent them electronically before, they did not attach...

All the best.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Nah, they're physical bits of paper. I was going to send them along with Claire to lunch tomorrow, but you're not going to be there. Is there anyone else that can collect 'em for you?

[gypsy0131.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no. Could I trouble you to mail them to my home address? Alternately, if she drives in, and if it is not too much trouble, C could post them through my door at casa Gypsy after lunch? If you do need to just mail them, I will happily refund you the postage. xo

[juliann.livejournal.com]

Isn't a yawl some sort of single-masted ship?

It's certainly not the way to address a group of people, for that would be y'all :P

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Not at all. Y'awl certainly has a 'w' in it, which is absent from the more RP 'all', I think you'll find. :)

[juliann.livejournal.com]

No, 'all' has a w in it too :) (dipthongs rule the world)

[gypsy0131.livejournal.com]

I think Juliann is right about the yawl being the ship, as well as about y'all, at least in America. The people south of the Mason-Dixon line refer to people as y'all, a contraction form of you all. A most common expression is: "How y'all at?"

8^)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

But _phonetically_ the 'w' in y'awl/y'all is much more pronounced than that in a real 'all'. So I stand by it :P