Y'all

30 comments

• bang69

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  10 years ago

  I us it when talking with my friends that were born & raised here in the south
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  I don't say "y'all." When I lived in San Antonio, I probably used it sometimes because I heard it so much.
• Clubber

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  10 years ago

  Always have and always will. Even though, in Florida, the further south you go the more north you get, I'm still about as Southern as you can get.
• sharkhunter

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  10 years ago

  I do not but have lived in the south most of my life. I picked up my speech from my parents and never felt a need to change my speech because of others.
• sofaking87

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  10 years ago

  I always giggle when I here people say y'all. Often ill say "don't you mean everyone"? Lol!
• ATACdawg

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  10 years ago

  When I lived in Pittsburgh, the equivalent was "yunz". I think that it was a corruption of "you ones", but I'm not sure.
• georgmicrodong

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  10 years ago

  I use it occasionally.
• ilbbaicnl

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  10 years ago

  Y'all is "you guys" in Yankee. Or "youse" in Brooklyn.
• gatorfan

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  10 years ago

  Yous yall in a sentence please.
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  Out in Central California, we got a lot of them Okies from the Dust Bowl. I heard it growing up and I use it on a daily basis.
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  @ATAdawg, I grew up near Pittsburgh and I used to say "yunz" but I broke the habit. I think you're right--it means "you ones."
• mikeya02

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  10 years ago

  ^^^ In Pittsburgh, I always thought they were saying "you'ins"
• ATACdawg

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  10 years ago

  Well, they may be, but it's spelled yunz. After all, we must use correct grammar and spelling! LOL
• rh48hr

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  10 years ago

  As someone who grew up in Pittsburgh the correct spelling is yinz. Pittsburgh truly has it's own language. For the proper translations here is a English to Pittsburgh dictionary. [view link]
• ime

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  10 years ago

  Lived in the south for seven years hear it all the time. Never said it no plans on starting too.
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  "Yes, yes y'all Yes y'all Who's got the vibe for the tribe y'all Tribe y'all"
• ATACdawg

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  10 years ago

  @rh48hr: Have yinz all Ben ta Jynt Iggle fer pierohis en dat ta get redd up fer da big game?
• ATACdawg

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  10 years ago

  If ya can have a big game widout da Stillers!
• lopaw

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  10 years ago

  Nope. Not here in the glorious 'burbs of LA. We're way too snobby to ever resort to using the slang terminology of the common people who reside east of Sepulveda Blvd ;)
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  @Lopaw-You know what Big Snoop would have to say about that? You can't spell the West without the E-S.
• rh48hr

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  10 years ago

  ATACdawg - i have been to giant eagle for perrogies to get ready for the big game. Lol. And I love my Steelers. :) I also find I like to use words such as yinz, nebby, crick and ruff just to not lose the Pittsburgh in me. I've never had the accent tho.
• likes2look

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  10 years ago

  I was born on the gulf coast of LA and learned to use y'all and its plural form all y'all before my parents moved me back to th family farm in the Midwest. Now I am in the western US and don't have much cause to use y'all, but it is good to know a second language .
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  @Clubber-If you're as Southern as it gets, does that mean that you're also Argentino? We gauchos are very Southern.
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  True. No big game widout da Stillers.
• Clubber

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  10 years ago

  SS, I was referring to just the states. :)
• fun12times12

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  10 years ago

  Knowing when to use y'all is very important. For example, walk into a bar down here and ask a group of strippers this.....which one of Y'all can take it all down to my balls. Find one that says yeah and you've got your winner. Sounds like everyone in the motor city will answer yes though.
• Clubber

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  10 years ago

  I would like to correct l2l's comment, "...y'all and its plural form all y'all...". Y'all, alone is both singular and plural. That said, y'all and all y'all are synonymous.
• MrDeuce

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  10 years ago

  I seldom say "y'all" but realize that it serves a useful purpose. Unlike almost all other European languages, English has lost its second-person plural pronoun, or rather replaced its old second-person singular "thou" with the second-person plural "you". Americans have been inventing words to fill the gap for centuries: "y'all" in the South, "yous" in New York, "yunz" in Pittsburgh, and "you guys" all over the country. Of these choices, I actually prefer "y'all". Embrace it -- don't scorn it!
• crazyjoe

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  10 years ago

  Its cuter when she says it
• Clubber

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  10 years ago

  crazy, Anyone that doesn't love a southern hottie with her drawl just ain't right in the head! That goes for y'all.