"y'all"

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  • SnazzyTraveller
    SnazzyTraveller Posts: 458 Member
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    I've never heard any of my friends say "yous"...it's always something like "you guys" or even a singular "you" covering a bunch of people when the context is understood.

    same! only once have i heard it and it was a hillbilly uncle of mine.
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
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    I would think "you guys", but not "you" as a plural.


    You would be wrong. :smile:

    I say 'you guys'. I'm American but not southern. I never say 'y'all' unless I'm doing an impression.
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
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    I am Canadian, I have always said y'all

    I had no idea it was weird, until at a meeting at work one day, and I said it, and the entire room just stopped everything and laughed....

    I guess many Canadians do not say that......no idea why I do.....
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
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    It can also be singular or plural.

    JM
  • sc1572
    sc1572 Posts: 2,309 Member
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    i'm from texas, and we say it instead of "you all" or "you guys" etc...

    ex:
    where are y'all going?
    what do y'all want to do?
    how are y'all?
  • AprilPayne24
    AprilPayne24 Posts: 68
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    Substitues for Y'all...

    Yens (My Grandmother says this - She is from Pittsburgh)
    Yous (New York)
  • 967_1111
    967_1111 Posts: 221 Member
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    I am Canadian and I don't know anyone that uses "y'all" on a regular basis.

    I would just use "you". For example:

    - when yelling at my kids

    "When are you going to bed"

    Could be for one of them or more than one.

    y'all is the quickest way of being labelled an American.
  • Abigaillee15
    Abigaillee15 Posts: 100
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    It's a Southern thing! I didn't realize how much I said it until I got onto this site and was throwing "Y'all's" all over the place. I bet some people get annoyed but I honestly can't help it! lol.
  • silkandsugar
    silkandsugar Posts: 125
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    Hey y'all! LOL
  • sherry9300
    sherry9300 Posts: 149 Member
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    If y'all sounds even remotely like it may have two syllables....you're saying it wrong. Nothing is worse than a forced y'all. I grew up in Texas and lived most of my adult life there and in Georgia and Mississippi. I say "you" and I say "y'all"....just depends on my mood.
  • ZombieChaser
    ZombieChaser Posts: 1,555 Member
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    As a Canadian, around here we don't use y'all. However, there's a heavy french influence in certain parts of Canada, and they say "you guys", or "yous", meaning all of you (plural of you). But, personally, I say "all of you guys"...I avoid the use of "yous" like the plague.

    (btw, go SENS go!)
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
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    There is no Canadian version of Y'all. Canadians only ad eh on to the end of a sentence to ask a question or get confirmation. Y'all isn't in the vocabulary at all.

    I am Canadian, and I have lived in Charleston South Carolina where I have said eh and Y'all in the same sentence. I'm no less intelligent, but I did get a few chuckles. I liken the Y'all to a very slow country drawl. I love the south and the amount of time people take to just enjoy life.
  • aliciakay3086
    aliciakay3086 Posts: 61 Member
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    Don't they say "you guys"?
    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?
  • swisspea
    swisspea Posts: 327 Member
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    I'm Canadian, and we don't use y'all, unless we're trying to be funny. Usually we use "everyone" or "you guys" or just "you" depending on the situation
  • datguy2011
    datguy2011 Posts: 477 Member
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    Canadian's use y'all as well...
  • PittShkr
    PittShkr Posts: 1,000 Member
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    In Pittsburgh we say yinz. Hence we are all yinzerz!
  • unsuspectingfish
    unsuspectingfish Posts: 1,176 Member
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    It's not just a Southern thing, though. My mother's family is from West Virginia, and they use it all the time, which is how I've come to use it all the way over in Washington state.
  • staceyseeger
    staceyseeger Posts: 783 Member
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    I'm from South Texas. I say, write & type YA'LL all the time. The first time I told my kids "ya'll go in yonder" - he's like "where's that?" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • upnorthtim
    upnorthtim Posts: 376 Member
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    there are also the nuanced uses such as ...."all y'all" and "each of y'all" ......... :-)
  • joankpoirier
    joankpoirier Posts: 281 Member
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    and then there is the good old stand by
    YA'LL COME BACK NOW

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