Little known alternative history fact: A West Virginian moved to Texas in the wake of the Civil War and started the conversational practice of "ya'll." His name was Owata Fu Lyam. He was mixed ancestry--25% Irish, 25% German; 25% Bangladeshi; 25% Guatemalan; 25% Tunisian; and 25% Chinese. He was truly a man-and-a-half.

That might be true.