Samantha Guthrie says she was told she could not say that as it is a southern expression and the broadcast is national.many people dont like it and have. Negative connotations. I will have to admit, I don' t like it

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You don't like the saying "y'all"?

I think it's perfectly fine!

I say it all the damn time. I'd say it an "you guys" have equal representation in my used vocabulary.

I love when we say ""you guys" to a group of females.

It's the same as you gals, except we would never say that to a group of guys.

Y'all is "you all" and is genderless. It's also Southern, which is why non southerners don't get it, but in place of you guys or you gals y'all makes better sense.

I remember at 8 years old we traveled to Dallas where my mom's sister had been raising her family (aunt and mom grew in in Pasadena). My cousin asked me "are y'all coming back here for dinner tonight?"
I was like, "what?"
She repeated.
I was slow to understand. "Who is yawl ?"

She repeated. "Y'all. You, your mom, your brother."

It was my first foreign word of translation for one who would later become an international affairs student studying 3 languages.

Language adjusts and sprouts anew all the time throughout human history. Go with the flow!

English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

sycasey said:

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English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

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Good idea.
Please utilize Your Royal Highnesses from now on.

Stamped, the King.

dimitrig said:

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sycasey said:

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English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

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We also have "all y'all"

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Ah yes, good one.
But the first all is redundant. Like, what's the difference between y'all and all y'all?

A: it's just to be clear, so y'all knew I was talking about You People!

sycasey said:

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English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

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Then there's the Western Pennsylvania term, "yinz" as in "you ones". In fact, Pittsburgh residents are sometimes referred to as "Yinzers". My wife's family is in NE Ohio and her father used the term although pronounced it more like "you 'uns". Unlike "y'all", "yinz" may be more of a working class term as he was a fairly blue-collar guy who spent all his free time playing cards with his buddies at the Moose Lodge. Conversely, I've never heard her mom's family who are from the same town but all college educated, say "yinz".

As the English language becomes more homogeneous, these colloquialisms are dying out, which is too bad. I get a kick out of them (dontcha know!).

HearstMining said:

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sycasey said:

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English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

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Then there's the Western Pennsylvania term, "yinz" as in "you ones". In fact, Pittsburgh residents are sometimes referred to as "Yinzers". My wife's family is in NE Ohio and her father used the term although pronounced it more like "you 'uns". Unlike "y'all", "yinz" may be more of a working class term as he was a fairly blue-collar guy who spent all his free time playing cards with his buddies at the Moose Lodge. Conversely, I've never heard her mom's family who are from the same town but all college educated, say "yinz".

As the English language becomes more homogeneous, these colloquialisms are dying out, which is too bad. I get a kick out of them (dontcha know!).

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Oh yeah, "yinz" is another good one!

sycasey said:

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HearstMining said:

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sycasey said:

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English does lack a second-person plural pronoun like a lot of other languages have. Hence the colloquial creation of terms like "y'all" or "youse" or "you guys" to substitute. Maybe we should settle on something and make it official!

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Then there's the Western Pennsylvania term, "yinz" as in "you ones". In fact, Pittsburgh residents are sometimes referred to as "Yinzers". My wife's family is in NE Ohio and her father used the term although pronounced it more like "you 'uns". Unlike "y'all", "yinz" may be more of a working class term as he was a fairly blue-collar guy who spent all his free time playing cards with his buddies at the Moose Lodge. Conversely, I've never heard her mom's family who are from the same town but all college educated, say "yinz".

As the English language becomes more homogeneous, these colloquialisms are dying out, which is too bad. I get a kick out of them (dontcha know!).

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Oh yeah, "yinz" is another good one!

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Never heard that.
Perhaps there's an example on YouTube so I can hear it.

I like "Y'all" as a substitute for "you guys." Y'all is all purpose, applicable to any group: a 5 year old birthday party or a shareholder meeting.


I also like the less common (more regional) "yuns" - a conflation of "you ones." Google tells me it's Appalachian. I first heard it in the Ozarks, and I only knew one family that used it.

AunBear89 said:

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I like "Y'all" as a substitute for "you guys." Y'all is all purpose, applicable to any group: a 5 year old birthday party or a shareholder meeting.


I also like the less common (more regional) "yuns" - a conflation of "you ones." Google tells me it's Appalachian. I first heard it in the Ozarks, and I only knew one family that used it.

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When i hear y'all I think of a drunk, fat southern woman having trouble speaking

concordtom said:

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Language adjusts and sprouts anew all the time throughout human history. Go with the flow!

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Tell me about it. The city of Berkeley decided to refer to their manholes as maintenance covers so as not to offend men. Y'all hear?

oskidunker said:

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AunBear89 said:

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I like "Y'all" as a substitute for "you guys." Y'all is all purpose, applicable to any group: a 5 year old birthday party or a shareholder meeting.


I also like the less common (more regional) "yuns" - a conflation of "you ones." Google tells me it's Appalachian. I first heard it in the Ozarks, and I only knew one family that used it.

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When i hear y'all I think of a drunk, fat southern woman having trouble speaking

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Oh yeah?
And what did y'all do to her?

oskidunker said:

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AunBear89 said:

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I like "Y'all" as a substitute for "you guys." Y'all is all purpose, applicable to any group: a 5 year old birthday party or a shareholder meeting.


I also like the less common (more regional) "yuns" - a conflation of "you ones." Google tells me it's Appalachian. I first heard it in the Ozarks, and I only knew one family that used it.

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When i hear y'all I think of a drunk, fat southern woman having trouble speaking

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We once had a friend who was originally from North Carolina and she had a really delightful southern accent - had a real lilt to it. When she talked to her young kids, or anybody else's, she'd call them "Sug", short for "Sugar".