Is "y'all" an acceptable word

[vetteman9368]

i know it sounds a whole lot better than "youse guys", but is it considered acceptabl? I know that my iPhone has y'all in its dictionary, but that's not really a reliable source, or these days maybe it is

[snide]

I don't understand the question, eh!

[themonk]

i say it when i'm making fun of y'all.

[DAB]

One person: y'all

2 or more people: all y'all.

[LATB]

One person: y'all

2 or more people: all y'all.

this is acceptable on the Redneck Rivera

:dance:

[GRN ENVY]

I like pie

[vetteman9368]

I like pie

you've never had pie:slap:

[GRN ENVY]

you've never had pie:slap:

This is true

[LATB]

This is true

den you best be fixin to git you some

[GRN ENVY]

den you best be fixin to git you some

I is goin to try

[high desert]

Southern vernacular at its finest.

[Omega Man]

Any one who would use "Youse guys" should be queer stomped with old army jungle boots. The same goes for the word "pop". WTF is pop? I tell you what it is, it is the sound made when I smack the shit out of you for sounding like a freaking Yankee.

A "Yankee" is just another phrase for the string on a used tampon.

:shots:

[high desert]

Any one who would use "Youse guys" should be queer stomped with old army jungle boots. The same goes for the word "pop". WTF is pop? I tell you what it is, it is the sound made when I smack the shit out of you for sounding like a freaking Yankee.

A "Yankee" is just another phrase for the string on a used tampon.

:shots:

:rofl: :cheers:

[LATB]

Any one who would use "Youse guys" should be queer stomped with old army jungle boots. The same goes for the word "pop". WTF is pop? I tell you what it is, it is the sound made when I smack the shit out of you for sounding like a freaking Yankee.

A "Yankee" is just another phrase for the string on a used tampon.

:shots:

:rofl:

[MrPeabody]

A southern belle was at a society party in Boston. She asked one of the ladies she met there: "Where do y'all come from?" The boston lady replied: "We come from where we don't end our sentences in prepositions."

The southern belle then said: "Oh, then where do y'all come from, bitch?"

[MattW]

One person: y'all

2 or more people: all y'all.


Nope. T'ain't true. "Y'all" is never singular.

Don't know rightly where that partic'lar fallacy got started...

[LisaJohn]

Y'all can say y'all. The first time I heard "yuse guys" was when a waitress asked us "How yuse guys tonight?" Right here in the heart of dixie! We started laughing, the people on either side of us heard her and they started laughing. I still don't think she figured it out. Y'all can say what you want but we say y'all.
L/MM

[lander]

I knew I was here to stay the first time I used "hose pipe" properly in a sentence. :thumbs:

[Grey Ghost]

Paula Dean has made a fortune from it. Having grown up in the south. I don't know anyone that uses it as much as she does. I think she needs slapped every time she says it now.

[Datawiz]

If it wasn't acceptable, nobody would know how to communicate south of the Mason Dixon line. :rofl:

[...Whitepower...]

I'm a Yankee transplant in Georgia.

My wife and I have corrected our 4 year old for saying "y'all." :yesnod:

[G8rDMD]

Judging by the poll results thus far, I'd say y'all spoken here :dance:

[thkauffman]

Any one who would use "Youse guys" should be queer stomped with old army jungle boots. The same goes for the word "pop". WTF is pop? I tell you what it is, it is the sound made when I smack the shit out of you for sounding like a freaking Yankee.

A "Yankee" is just another phrase for the string on a used tampon.

:shots:

Are you still going to anger management therapy?

[BuckyThreadkiller]

Of course.

As is "fixin to".

And y'all can be used to address a singular person if it understood that the reference is to include the singular person's family, friends and neighbors. For instance - if one is leaving a party and the host sees you to the door and says, "Goodnight." it is perfectly acceptable to respond with "Y'all too" which is understood to include everyone the host might come in contact with before retiring for the evening.

Unless of course there is a disclaimer, whereby the proper Southern etiquette would be "Y'all too, 'ceptin' that scumbucket Brian - you tell him to go to hell."

[w!ngnut]

It is around here.

[Olustee bus]

Y'all is also an appropriate substitution for yamommanem

[LATB]

Paula Dean has made a fortune from it. Having grown up in the south. I don't know anyone that uses it as much as she does. I think she needs slapped every time she says it now.

Paula uses it as part of her act.

[LATB]

I'm a Yankee transplant in Georgia.

My wife and I have corrected our 4 year old for saying "y'all." :yesnod:

Not interested in assimilation, huh?

[Omega Man]

Are you still going to anger management therapy?

Skipped a couple of classes. Does it show?

:shots:

[Bucwheat]

Here in the South if you say anything else,you are an Alien.:rofl:

[Z06David]

Yes, it's acceptable

[...Whitepower...]

Not interested in assimilation, huh?

Guess.. :lol:

[thkauffman]

Skipped a couple of classes. Does it show?

:shots:

:rofl::rofl:

[NEVRL8T]

If it wasn't acceptable, nobody would know how to communicate south of the Mason Dixon line. :rofl:

:iagree::lol: It's the first word Arkansas' children learn. Not "mom" or "dad". Because, "mom" and "dad" is "y'all".

[clutchdust]

Nope. T'ain't true. "Y'all" is never singular.

Don't know rightly where that partic'lar fallacy got started...

Perfectly good, if not widely accepted, contraction of "you all". No different than "you're", can't, and the like. Unlike "yous", which isn't a word in any variation of the English language.

[88Z51]

Yes, it's acceptable

Depends on where you live I suppose.

[MattW]

Depends on where you live I suppose.

Regionalism exists in the South too.

For example, in Tennessee, just about everyone on the Cumberland Plateau (Cookeville, Crossville, Jamestown, etc) don't use "y'all" - they use "you'uns".

"You'uns going to Cracker Barrel Sunday?"

[Z06PDQ]

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this ya'll. :D

[w!ngnut]

Regionalism exists in the South too.

For example, in Tennessee, just about everyone on the Cumberland Plateau (Cookeville, Crossville, Jamestown, etc) don't use "y'all" - they use "you'uns".

"You'uns going to Cracker Barrel Sunday?"

A friend of mine uses that term...never heard it until I met him. He's from Grundy, Virginia...coal mining country.

[Exotix]

Here in the South if you say anything else,you are an Alien.:rofl:

This is true ... I'm from California and everyone knows I'm from California everytime I open my mouth ...

So all 'y'all be tripp'n ...


:beer:

[themonk]

Is there a way to see the poll results without having to actually vote?

[MrPeabody]

Is there a way to see the poll results without having to actually vote?

We'll file this one under I'm Canadian and don't understand the question.




















Click View Poll Results:D

[LATB]

We'll file this one under I'm Canadian and don't understand the question.



:rofl:

[Petew1971]

That word is fine with me

[LATB]

That word is fine with me

your approval means a lot.

[jda67gta]

sho nuff...

[Zed16]

Of course.

As is "fixin to".

And y'all can be used to address a singular person if it understood that the reference is to include the singular person's family, friends and neighbors. For instance - if one is leaving a party and the host sees you to the door and says, "Goodnight." it is perfectly acceptable to respond with "Y'all too" which is understood to include everyone the host might come in contact with before retiring for the evening.

Unless of course there is a disclaimer, whereby the proper Southern etiquette would be "Y'all too, 'ceptin' that scumbucket Brian - you tell him to go to hell."

"fixin to" is the most useful of any phrase. The perfect combination of implying action without actually doing anything. "Honey, have you taken the trash out?". I'm fixin to!