[bayourod]

If you don't say "Y'all" what do you say?

[rockrr]

If I like ya, I'll say "y'all"

If I don't, I'll say "you people"

(I love the reaction I get to the second one ;'}

[longtermmemmory]

This is pathetic, they were saying the SAME THING when the Dukes of Hazzard were on TV.

Somebody is PAYING someone to study this?!?!

[epow]

, Anthony said, "Y'all know I don't talk about my personal life."

Whenever someone addresses one person as "y'all" it's a sure giveaway that the speaker is faking it and isn't a true southerner. We never say "y'all" unless we're talking to two or more people.

[freedumb2003]

"you guys"

[Carolinamom]

If you don't say "y'all", what do you say?

All y'all. LOL!

[philman_36]

I guess I'm going to have to conform and start typing it as y'all instead of ya'll (ya all...do ya all want to go?).

[sionnsar]

If you don't say "Y'all" what do you say?

As a Southerner moved North (a very long time ago), "You all." (pn "yewal.")

Interestingly, though, I've come across this lack of distinction between the 2nd person singular and plural in several languages, not just (modern) English.

[Slip18]

"All y'alls" is totally different than "y'alls." "Y'alls" can be singular or plural; "All y'alls" is definitely plural. It's just a matter of preference. LOL!

[ExSoldier]

I was born and raised in Miami, Fl. Today it is often referred to as New YAWK, South. But it wasn't always the case. Don't forget that Florida was a Confederate state and that the state capital of Tallahassee was the ONLY southern capital never captured by the yankees. The only battle of any significance fought on state soil, the battle of Olustee was a confederate victory. So, y'all, I was raised in an era where Miami natives referred to the city as My Am MUH (get hooked on phonics!) because that was the way it was pronounced from the time Julia Tuttle first lured Henry Flagler to invest in the area by bringing him an Orange Blossom in the dead of a new york winter.

For those who wish to see a more definitive dictionary of southern verbiage and terminology I offer this: HOW TO SPEAK SOUTHERN

[lepton]

I started saying it deliberately. there needs to be a definitive plural form of the word "you". Doing without it is just silly.

[Myrddin]

English handles 3rd person plural poorly. Most languages have a proper, formal way to handle it. Until something better comes along, I'm happy to adopt "Y'all". My mom was raised in southern Virginia, so I heard it frequently all home.

[GretchenM]

Thanks for pinging/paging/beeping me over here.

"But ultimately, the authors argue, it's a matter of addressing a "hole" in the English language."

Eggzackary. I use it a lot online (being in the North) because it is a gentler way of addressing people. If a person says, "You do this," it comes across as an order. If a person says, "Y'all do this," it comes across as a nonthreatening request.

[Melas]

All of you. I've always said, all of you.

[CholeraJoe]

"Out on the road the traffic slowed down to a crawl
Strobe lights flashin' on the overpass
The tangled steel could not reveal what no one saw
Or how he walked away without a scratch
He thought of her and walked along the exit ramp
He touched the night between two old street lamps."

The President of the USA is going to Bratislava, Slovakia.

"Dude, you made out with your sister. What were you thinking???" /Eurotrip reference.

[NetAddicted]

PERUSE LATER! Southern relatives.