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One of my foreign friends was teasing me about how English doesn't have a word for "a group of people" whereas many other major languages apparently do, and I replied "sure we do, it's y'all".
I'm in Canada where y'all doesn't get used much, but when I was learning Greek we used y'all as the English plural "you".
The one about "What word(s) do you use to refer to a group of two or more people" is missing an option or two. I often use "you lot" or "you kids". To be fair, the latter is more of a joking thing, like parting from a group and saying "you kids be good" or whatever. The "you lot" bit is, I'm pretty sure, something I picked up from watching British television. Most people in my neck of the woods say "you all" or "y'al…
http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest... I have never known anyone to use the third phrase.
http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest... I have never known anyone to use the third phrase.
Also, here is a localized scene from a video game that uses it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk024-oaFv4
If you look at the concentration of blue in the Bay Area, you can see that they need to add a city to "What is 'the City'?": http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest... Hint : It's not San José.
#21: What do you call a drive-through liquor store? I'm in Arkansas, and I've always heard these called "Baptist Windows".
The one about "What word(s) do you use to refer to a group of two or more people" is missing an option or two. I often use "you lot" or "you kids". To be fair, the latter is more of a joking thing, like parting from a group and saying "you kids be good" or whatever. The "you lot" bit is, I'm pretty sure, something I picked up from watching British television. Most people in my neck of the woods say "you all" or "y'al…
For #15 the Louisiana term is Poboy, despite the best attempts by Subway to convince us otherwise.