Just remember, y'all is always plural. It is never used by Southerners to address a single individual, despite the way actors on TV and in the movies (usually written by someone not from the South) use it. :wink:
Not true, at least not in Texas. Y'all can be used as a singular form there as well. Yeah, I know, I was confused, too, the first time some Texan called me "y'all," thinking, "Who else is he talking to? There's no one else here!" :lol: Also, note the difference between "y'all" and its always-plural form "all y'all."
Well, Texans can be particularly odd (I lived in Houston for six years so I know) and I really don't consider them Southerners.
I had never heard that one before, and I live in the South (in Florida). That's funny: y'all can be singular and "all y'all" is its plural.
Getting back to the original topic of this thread - does anybody know a word rhyming with mercury or silver?
Apparently there are no words that rhyme with mercury or silver. See http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi
From OED, "dicky-dilver" (in dialect, another name for the periwinkle), and "chilver" (Old English, still used in some southern [England] dialects, for a ewe-lamb). Yeah, it's a stretch, I know. All the other entries are for "*ilver" are derivatives of "silver." I couldn't find one for "mercury."
For purple there are no perfect rhymes (no other English word ends in "rple"), however there are many rhymes for words ending in "ple". You can find them at: onelook.com/?w=*ple&scwo=1&sswo=1&scwo=1&sswo=0
And what about Miss Marple? I know it does not rhyme with purple, but I guess it is an English word .
Again from OED: hirple: Scottish/northern dialect, to hobble curple: Scottish, the rear (esp. of a horse) besperple: Obs., to bespatter turple: Obs., to fall, tumble; Mid-Yorkshire dial., of an animal, to die I guess it just shows how much the English language varies from place to place.