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[Duxxy3]

I wish I could use it more often, but I live in Massachusetts. "Y'all" is seen as a redneck term, but I have to say it can be very convenient.

Well that's it for me. Later y'all.

 

[PSYGN]

Y'all be good now.

 

[MastAndo]

I use it all the time - mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I still like the way it sounds. Besides, "you all ready for this?" just doesn't have the same ring when I'm singing along to my favorite dance tracks.

 

[NeoZeedeater]

Anyone here (Canada) saying "y'all" in a serious manner will be rightfully ridiculed. Some things aren't allowed to cross the 49th parallel.

 

[Media]

Anyone here (Canada) saying "y'all" in a serious manner will be rightfully ridiculed. Some things aren't allowed to cross the 49th parallel.

But y'all are good folk and I was looking forward to someday visiting / becoming a refuge lol

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Im in Canada and yall is working just fine. Its gota come naturally though. If youre forcing that shit you'll sound like an idiot.

"Yall going out tonight?" Ok

"Listen here, yall" not ok

 

[shaneo632]

I immediately assume the poster is black or a hick.

 

[sixteen-bit]

y'all is the GOAT

 

[Xe4]

I immediately assume the poster is black or a hick.

That's not true. At all. I legitimetly don't understand why people are wierd about using y'all. It's just grammatically as any other contraction.

 

[MadSexual]

So as someone who only recently moved to the South...

I love it.

I currently work in retail, and there is no better way to be casual and gender-inclusive when addressing groups than a simple "y'all".

 

[Vicetrailia]

I try to avoid using it, lol. Makes me feel really southern. I live in NC.

With exception to "sup ya'll" of course. It's too efficient.

 

[Media]

I immediately assume the poster is black or a hick.

I'm getting straight As in college at 35, grew up rural, literal desert town in the southwest, my graduating class in high school had 13 kids in it, I am a mother of three, am okay intelligence wise, and I'm native American. I say y'all and call everyone hon and sweetheart. I call friends lovely, darling, dear heart, ect. I call my husband baby lol.

I also hate going to Walmart and having to park in the back 40 cause I'm currently on crutches and I'm moving from BFE Illinois to Austin Texas this week.

Don't judge much by how people speak, local vernacular is hard to shake for some folk and people don't stay where they grew up anymore.


And honestly more and more rural folk are moving into cities like I am (for the first time ever) and I think it's a good thing. Being in such isolated communities is detrimental and limits the amount of culture and life you get to experience, thus leading to rural folk mostly voting against their own self interest

 

[Strain]

It's fine

Spoiler

On the other hand I have beef with Pittsburghese version: yins

 

[IamDodongo]

I love it and I will never stop saying it.

 

[CHC]

Not going to criticize anyone for using it. If you've got the right intonation, it's fine.

But there's not a hope in hell I could weave "y'all" into my everyday vernacular, given my extremely normal and straight laced Northeastern American voice.

 

[Davidion]

It's very useful; sounds a bit out of a place for a NYCer, but it's the best option we got.


According to the "regional plural you" map, I'm supposed to say "Youse".

No.

 

[NoMoreTrolls]

From Texas. Use it all the time. Way better than youse guys or however northerners say it. It's just so damn convenient.

 

[CaviarMeths]

I use it even when speaking to one person. Great word. One of the best southern exports.

Edit:

Anyone here (Canada) saying "y'all" in a serious manner will be rightfully ridiculed. Some things aren't allowed to cross the 49th parallel.

Boo this man.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

Not from the south but I use it pretty frequently in text or writing and almost never say it in verbal communication. Not sure why that is, but it's a great word.

 

[Media]

Not going to criticize anyone for using it. If you've got the right intonation, it's fine.

But there's not a hope in hell I could weave "y'all" into my everyday vernacular, given my extremely normal and straight laced Northeastern American voice.

I don't have a heavy Texan accent since I grew up in New Mexico, and I don't think it sounds funny when I say it. My accent is, I think, the general newscaster one with hints of Texan, Spanish, and Navajo. Of course when I go home or hear people talking like at home it gets thicker, but y'all is pretty universal

 

[Falchion]

I like it when girls say it but I don't. I've always lived in the south though.

 

[Chance Hale]

Visiting family in Memphis and Southaven and it's so good to hear y'all everywhere after having moved to Denver.