What's the first thing that comes to mind when y'all read the phrase "Southern culture?" Sweet tea? Front porch chats lit by lightening bugs? Country music? Well, did the word "y'all" stand out as odd ...

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“Y’all” is the most identifiable feature of the dialect known as Southern American English. It simply and elegantly fills out the pronoun paradigm gap that occurs in dialects that have only “you” for ...

The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from... Y'all, we need to ...

There is "tu" and "ustedes" in Spanish, and "tu" and "vous" in French. But English only has "you." The English language is somewhat unique in that it uses the singular form "you" as a second-person ...

I admit it - I’m a y’all-aholic. I like to say it. I like to write it. “Y’all” is one of those things, like sweet tea and nanner pudding, that southerners own. Sure, we let other people borrow it from ...

Southern Living magazine once described “y’all” as “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” It’s as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits. While “y’all” is considered slang, it’s a useful word ...