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Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".
Y'all is a contraction of you all.The spelling you-all in second-person plural pronoun usage was first recorded in 1824. [4] [5] The earliest two attestations with the actual spelling y'all are from 1856, [6] and in the Southern Literary Messenger (published in Richmond, Virginia) in 1858. [7]