• no banana@lemmy.worldOP
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      I think people would’ve felt it more natural if I wrote “all of y’all” instead, but I thought the “of” was unnecessary.

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        But you wrote the slang correctly! Unfamiliarity with the slang is an opportunity to educate about our language.

        (Source; we been sayin’ all y’all since before y’all non-Southerners were even sayin’ y’all.)

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      I love that this is both amusing and completely factual.

      I’m a Brit so it’s not something I can use without sounding odd, but y’all’s my favourite thing to come out of American English since ok.

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      I’m Philly and we like to say you’s guys’es instead of y’all and we’ll say all’s you’s guys’es for all y’all . And jawn for that thing that can’t remember the word for but you know what I’m talking about because of the context of what I’m saying. You’s guys’s know what I’m saying.