For example, this, from a gentleman of Pell City, Alabama: My wife is the residuary legatee of Virginia's language, inherited, acquired and affected varieties, including the vanishing _y_; annihilated _g_; long-distance _a_, and irresistible drawl.
To quell the unfortunate tumult that has arisen in our household as a result of your last article in "Collier's" I am commanded to advise you that the use of "you-all" in the singular is absodamnlutely _non est factum_ in Virginia, save, perhaps, among the hill people of the Blue Ridge.
Also, take notice that when your hostess, with apparent inadvertence, used the expression in connection with sugar in your demi-tasse, the subsequent blush was due to your failure to catch her witticism, ignorantly mistaking it for a lapse of hers.
My wife was going to write to you herself, but I managed to divert this cruel determination by promising to uphold the honor of the Old Dominion.

There is already too much blood being shed in the world without spilling that of non-combatants as would have been "you-all's" fate had she gone after you with a weapon more mighty than the sword when in the hands of Mr.Wilson or an outraged woman.
In face of all this and much more, however, my conviction was unshaken.
I talked it over with my companion.

He remembered the episode of the dinner table exactly as I did.

Moreover, I still had my notes, made in the hotel that night.

The lady looked at me.