In Defense of Y'All
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In Defense of Y'All
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#2Proudly use "y'all" frequently in my everyday conversation, despite having zero other attributes characteristically Southern about me. As the article says it's flexible, is impossible to offend anyone with as far as I can tell, and just sounds good.
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#3Only a true Texan can tell you the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".
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#4Cowabunga rolls more naturally off of my Southern California lips but I've been appropriating y'all in emails, etc. for years, and nobody has complained yet. But I still feel strangely compelled to write "Dear Sirs" at the top of letters to strangers, as there's no formal form of y'all. I usually settle for "Hello".
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#5As a child of Appalachia, I suggest that we all compromise on you'ens, or as it's commonly pronounced yinz.
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#6Only a true Texan can tell you the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".
"y'all'd've"
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#7Only a true Texan can tell you the difference between "y'all" and "all y'all".
Or a Georgian.
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#8I've long used "y'all" as a gender-neutral way of addressing a group, but now that's gone all mainstream I've been considering switching to "yinz".
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#9Proudly use "y'all" frequently in my everyday conversation, despite having zero other attributes characteristically Southern about me. As the article says it's flexible, is impossible to offend anyone with as far as I can tell, and just sounds good.
I was a West Coast kid with absolutely no connection to the South when I added "y'all" to my idiolect as a teenager: I thought it just made more sense.
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#10Canadian here using y'all every day. Might as well make it the formal English plural.