"y'all"

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  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Y'all are awesome :)
  • ActiveGuy81
    ActiveGuy81 Posts: 705 Member
    I am from south east Texas and y'all is part of our vocabulary. It's a term for you all when referring to a group. Example, How y'all doin?" As opposed to saying "how is everybody doing?" We also use it in the ownership form as in, "How are y'all's kids doing in school?" We take shortcuts in our sentences and y'all is a great one for that.
  • txsgirlK
    txsgirlK Posts: 171 Member
    I think Y'all is a Southern thing, and I know it's a Texas thang! Not a thing, a thang. By the way, Texas is not part of the South. Texas is just Texas, the former Republic of Texas and therefore much bigger than the South. :) If you don't believe me, ask any Texan.

    Other terms that have the same meaning as Y'all

    Youse... mostly heard by New Yawkers

    Yu'ins. A popular term in Southern Missouri and Southern Illinois.

    Hahahah YES! Us Texans have kind of an out of control amount of state pride :) I love it!


    Amen!

    Hell yeah, y'all! :laugh:
  • darcie81
    darcie81 Posts: 69 Member
    Y'all

    You all
    You all are
    All of you

    EX: Y'all funny (All of you are funny)
    Y'all need to shut up! (You all need to shut up!)

    Personally unless you're using it as dialog, I wouldn't use Y'All on a paper of any kind...unless of course you go to school in Texas, then it's okay.

    YEAH I WOULDN'T USE IT IN A PAPER!! I moved to Connecticut from Georgia and i have a really bad habit with y'all and they looked at me like i was the biggest redneck freak that walk the earth!!!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Mississippi here and of course I use y'all but I have really wanted to start throwing in British terms in my everyday language just to throw people off but it is not as easy as that. You actually have to think about language you use and most of the time it just flows so for a Canadian to just decide to start using y'all would be harder than it sounds.
  • jplord
    jplord Posts: 510 Member
    "Yu'ins" (assumed 2 syllables) may be southern Illinois and Missouri, but Pittsburgh, PA, has it's own dialect that includes "yunz". Formally known as Pittsburgheze, this dialect also includes "pop" for soda, "gumbands" for rubber bands, and "jagger bushes" for thorn bushes. Myron Cope was the poet laureate of Pittburgheze when I was growing up there.
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    On a personal level I tend to say "ya" more often than y'all. "Ya" seems to cover a lot of ground too \m/
  • LauraHasABabyJack
    LauraHasABabyJack Posts: 629 Member
    I'm in SW Ohio and have ALWAYS heard y'all, but always as a plural. My husband is from southern Ohio (Appalachia!), and good gravy! the southern accents they have and y'all is said all the time. Its funny, they also use English terms sometimes, especially "boot" of the car.
    Ain't has never been acceptable because it sounds uneducated; we were always immediately corrected as kids if this word ever even began to drop from your mouth.
  • Shayztar
    Shayztar Posts: 415 Member

    You probably call coke "pop"! Don't y'all know it is all Coke! Then you say what kind of coke you want, diet coke, Pepsi, mountain dew!! :happy:


    ^^^^^Lmao! This exactly! I live in Texas and I cant tell y'all how many times Ive had this conversation: "Im going to the store, y'all want a coke?" "Yes" "Ok what kind?" "A Dr. Pepper" :)

    I have explained this to SOOOO many people lol


    OMG the first time I went to Texas I was so confused then I ordered a Coke at a theatre and got Mr. PIBB! I was like, WTH? Then I drank it and fell in love with fountain Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb. My hubby is from TX so I hear and see all kinds of slang from him. And when I visit inlaws and friends. In fact, one friend "brushed up" on his Canadian and the first thing he said to me when we went down there for Christmas last year was:

    "Do you want to drink a POP on my COUCH? I brought your TOUQUE to wear. But it'll cost you a TOONIE, EH?"

    Then he laughed like a maniac.
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    Y'all fixin to come to the fair?

    Or as they say in my 'hood, "Ya'll finna come to da fair?"
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    FYI Dr Pepper DOES not have a period after Dr
    I only bring it up cause its important! lol
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    I think Y'all is a Southern thing, and I know it's a Texas thang! Not a thing, a thang. By the way, Texas is not part of the South. Texas is just Texas, the former Republic of Texas and therefore much bigger than the South. :) If you don't believe me, ask any Texan.

    Other terms that have the same meaning as Y'all

    Youse... mostly heard by New Yawkers

    Yu'ins. A popular term in Southern Missouri and Southern Illinois.

    Hahahah YES! Us Texans have kind of an out of control amount of state pride :) I love it!


    Amen!

    Hell yeah, y'all! :laugh:

    "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." -Davy Crockett

    A friend of mine has this tattooed on his rib cage. WE'RE SERIOUS Y'ALL.
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    I think Y'all is a Southern thing, and I know it's a Texas thang! Not a thing, a thang. By the way, Texas is not part of the South. Texas is just Texas, the former Republic of Texas and therefore much bigger than the South. :) If you don't believe me, ask any Texan.

    Other terms that have the same meaning as Y'all

    Youse... mostly heard by New Yawkers

    Yu'ins. A popular term in Southern Missouri and Southern Illinois.

    Hahahah YES! Us Texans have kind of an out of control amount of state pride :) I love it!


    Amen!

    Hell yeah, y'all! :laugh:

    "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." -Davy Crockett

    A friend of mine has this tattooed on his rib cage. WE'RE SERIOUS Y'ALL.

    We aint playin' now. I love the Great State of Texas.
  • Beastette
    Beastette Posts: 1,497 Member
    I think Y'all is a Southern thing, and I know it's a Texas thang! Not a thing, a thang. By the way, Texas is not part of the South. Texas is just Texas, the former Republic of Texas and therefore much bigger than the South. :) If you don't believe me, ask any Texan.

    YES. Texas is it's own region altogether. You have the Cowboys...you're just so dang lucky.
  • angieleighbyrd
    angieleighbyrd Posts: 989 Member
    I think some of y'all are looking way too into this y'all thing.

    PS....it's not just Southern. I'm Northern.
  • CraigG75
    CraigG75 Posts: 177 Member
    Y'all is the southern short version of "you all" . Like a person could say "You guys are funny" or Y'all are funny" LOL.
  • reneegee23
    reneegee23 Posts: 232 Member
    I'm from Dallas and I HATE y'all, especially as a written "word". Nails on chalkboard.
  • reneegee23
    reneegee23 Posts: 232 Member
    Oh, I also hate the response to a misheard/unheard question or statement: "Do what?" THAT SOUNDS STUPID. I'm a hater.
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    Most other languages have a plural you; English doesn't. So the southerners kindly made one up for us.

    Damn straight. :smokin:
  • LenaMena87
    LenaMena87 Posts: 469 Member
    I've use y'all all my life...it's a southern slang for "you all"...nothing else to say about it!
  • Robin_Bin
    Robin_Bin Posts: 1,046 Member
    Don't know the Canadian version, but some of my friends from New York use "youse guys" as their plural form of "you".

    Personally, I prefer "ya'll".

    And you do know there are better sources for your paper, right?
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
    Oh, I also hate the response to a misheard/unheard question or statement: "Do what?" THAT SOUNDS STUPID. I'm a hater.

    You'd probably hate me, then, because I have a slight learning disability which causes me to respond to pretty much anything that anyone says with "What was that?", even if I hear them loud and clear. There's a lapse in comprehension between my ears and my brain, so I eventually get what people say, but it takes a second.

    So, you know, remember that before you call someone stupid for asking you to repeat something, even if they ask in a way that annoys you (I also have a 146 IQ and a college degree, so I like to think I'm not anywhere close to stupid).
  • jaydubbayu
    jaydubbayu Posts: 456
    In cincinnati, when you didn't hear what someone says, you say, "Please?" It's the only place in the world, I've heard, that someone does that. "Ya'll goin down to the mall down there?" I couldn't hear them. "Please?"
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
    In cincinnati, when you didn't hear what someone says, you say, "Please?" It's the only place in the world, I've heard, that someone does that. "Ya'll goin down to the mall down there?" I couldn't hear them. "Please?"

    That's kind of amusing, like it started out as "Could you repeat that, please?" or something and just lost all the other words somewhere along the way.

    I was always taught to say "Pardon?" to strangers, but I spent a lot of my childhood just hanging with family, so "What was that?" just sort of became ingrained in me. Most people don't even notice, but some people get really offended >_>
  • margeauxhunt
    margeauxhunt Posts: 77
    Aright- so would it be incorrect to say "you make me laugh!" implying you plural? Or would it be misunderstood?

    I say Y'all ALL of the time. I do live in Alabama!!

    Now, I only use y'all for plural. So, if I had three friends making jokes, I would say, "y'all are so funny!!!"

    But, if only one friend was making the joke, I would say, "You are so funny!"

    So to answer that question above, I would think you meant singular.

    I would think that people up north would say "Yous" instead of "Y'all"

    P.S. Even though I live in Alabama, I only have a slight southern accent. Most of the people down here have a HUGE southern drawl!!

    I would not use "Y'all" in a paper, your professor would not appreciate it! (Trust me, I am married to a professor!)

    I wonder if it's a regional thing, my family who live outside of Birmingham don't say y'all. Or maybe it's just them...
  • reneegee23
    reneegee23 Posts: 232 Member
    Oh, I also hate the response to a misheard/unheard question or statement: "Do what?" THAT SOUNDS STUPID. I'm a hater.

    You'd probably hate me, then, because I have a slight learning disability which causes me to respond to pretty much anything that anyone says with "What was that?", even if I hear them loud and clear. There's a lapse in comprehension between my ears and my brain, so I eventually get what people say, but it takes a second.

    So, you know, remember that before you call someone stupid for asking you to repeat something, even if they ask in a way that annoys you (I also have a 146 IQ and a college degree, so I like to think I'm not anywhere close to stupid).

    No, I wouldn't hate you! I just hate the response "Do what?" - it sounds ridiculous, ha. And I have to ask people to repeat themselves all the time, you're not alone.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    I'm from Dallas and I HATE y'all, especially as a written "word". Nails on chalkboard.

    Actually, the word "y'all" is included in the Oxford Dictionary as a contraction of "you all."

    So, it really is a word.

    And if you're from Dallas a hate the word "y'all", you must be pretty irritated like 90% of the time!
  • JaySpice
    JaySpice Posts: 326 Member
    You all.

    Alla yawl.
  • Fat_2_Fit_Mommy
    Fat_2_Fit_Mommy Posts: 569 Member
    Lol I'm from the south and I say it all the time! It means you all when you want to get other ppl attention.
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    I think i'm getting a feel for this dialect :glasses: thanks... y'all!

    so what do u think people who dont use it say in its place? for example ahem... canadians?

    "You guys" would be the "non-southern" way of saying it.
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