And now we wait for the inevitable "th'all", just to distinguish from the ever more popular singular they
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Checkmate, nobody
Y'all, posers.
You want to be inclusive like we did down in Tennessee, right all'y'all?
What about you'uns?
I've always used y'all when greeting strangers because of this very reason.
I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y'all because it's ungendered!
People should leave "y'all" alone. It doesn't belong to anyone. It is a natural contraction of "you" and "all" that several cultures have independently produced as part of their vernacular.
Shit, if ungendered pronouns make it woke, then I should ditch my native language.
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Tbh, I've heard more y'alls in the San Francisco Bay Area than in Texas (I've live din both). Granted I lived in an immigrant-heavy place in Texas that I didn't even live in for that long.
I had an ex that made fun of me non stop for saying "you all"
Was this post designed to offend all non Texan southerners