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English
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Pronoun
y'
- (informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.
1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!
1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.
1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:"Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.
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Louisiana Creole
Pronunciation
Pronoun
y'
- prevocalic form of yé (“they, them”)
- Y'a gin traka. ― They're gonna have a problem.
Yola
Article
y'
- Alternative form of a (“the”)
1867, “Prologue”, in CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114:To's Excellencie Constantine Harrie Phipps, y' Earle Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland.- To his Excellency, Constantine Henry Phipps, (the) Earl Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General, and Gereral Governor of Ireland.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114