Is Y'all in your vocabulary? This has traditionally been a southern thing but I have seen a few TUSCLers using it and they hail from other regions of the country.
When I moved to Atlanta in 1987 from southern California my 2 kids were 10 & 11 and did not use y'all. Now they both use it but I don't. How about you?
I don't say "y'all." When I lived in San Antonio, I probably used it sometimes because I heard it so much.
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.
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.
I always giggle when I here people say y'all. Often ill say "don't you mean everyone"? Lol!
When I lived in Pittsburgh, the equivalent was "yunz". I think that it was a corruption of "you ones", but I'm not sure.
I use it occasionally.
Y'all is "you guys" in Yankee. Or "youse" in Brooklyn.
Yous yall in a sentence please.
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.
@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."
^^^ In Pittsburgh, I always thought they were saying "you'ins"
Well, they may be, but it's spelled yunz. After all, we must use correct grammar and spelling! LOL
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.
Lived in the south for seven years hear it all the time. Never said it no plans on starting too.
"Yes, yes y'all Yes y'all Who's got the vibe for the tribe y'all Tribe y'all"
@rh48hr: Have yinz all Ben ta Jynt Iggle fer pierohis en dat ta get redd up fer da big game?
If ya can have a big game widout da Stillers!
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 ;)
@Lopaw-You know what Big Snoop would have to say about that?
You can't spell the West without the E-S.
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.
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 .
@Clubber-If you're as Southern as it gets, does that mean that you're also Argentino? We gauchos are very Southern.
True. No big game widout da Stillers.
SS,
I was referring to just the states. :)
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.
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.
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!
Its cuter when she says it
crazy,
Anyone that doesn't love a southern hottie with her drawl just ain't right in the head! That goes for y'all.
I us it when talking with my friends that were born & raised here in the south