Unhappy that "y'all" is everywhere

[Anonymous]

You hear it a lot in Tennessee.

[Anonymous]

Just a wild guess on my end, but my first thought was……Britney Spears maybe??!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from Kentucky. I invite y'all to take things up a notch and start using "all ya'll".

NoLa ppl here. I only use that in extreme circumstances.

[Anonymous]

"You guys" implies you are speaking to a male audience. Most of the time, people who use it are not. Y'all or "you all" makes the most sense.

Yinz is a stupid Pittsburgh thing. Talk about regional, OP, that's micro-regional. And STUPID because it doesn't even stand for anything. At least y'all means you all.

[Anonymous]

because it’s offensive to say “hey guys!” or “how are you guys doing?” when talking to a mixed group of both women and men.

y’all isn’t offensive.

[Anonymous]

I can tell there are a lot of old/middle aged women on this thread. Get a clue.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211119-why-more-people-are-saying-yall

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/the-case-for-yall/473277/

And this one kind of explains people like OP: https://qz.com/1748823/how-the-gender-neutral-yall-could-replace-you-guys/

[Anonymous]

It’s a code switching word that calls attention to itself immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a code switching word that calls attention to itself immediately.

+1. My husband does it and he’s from New England and i keep telling him to stop because it sounds phony

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a code switching word that calls attention to itself immediately.

Huh? Who is switching from what to what? You wouldn't know that I spent 11 years in FL, 1 year in MS, and 4 years in NC during my childhood plus a sprinkle of MD because I don't have an accent unless I am singing country or tipsy or have recently come back from visiting family. Y'all and all y'all are my normal but otherwise you would never know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like it because it's not gendered.

Oh brother.

Or sister

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We lack a formal 2nd person plural in English. "Y'all" is, in my opinion, the best thing we have. I would never say "youse guys," how odd to even suggest it.

-from the west coast

We have one. It's the word you.

Technically, “you all” is the formal second person plural in English and it was what I was always taught to use.

Although, honestly, “you guys” doesn’t bother me in casual conversation because I always thought of “guys” in this context as referring to all the people being spoken to, without making any kind of gender distinction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from Kentucky. I invite y'all to take things up a notch and start using "all ya'll".

NoLa ppl here. I only use that in extreme circumstances.

When “all y’all” is said, it’s about to go down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's perfectly serviceable as a regionalism for... people from that region. But why is it everywhere now? What is the attraction to people who either are able to speak standard English or have their own native regionalisms? I would vastly prefer "youse guys" or even "yinz" if there were some reason to choose a folksy When people adopt "y'all" on purpose, what is the image they're aspiring to?

What is “yinz”? I have never heard this.

Signed a Memphian.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's perfectly serviceable as a regionalism for... people from that region. But why is it everywhere now? What is the attraction to people who either are able to speak standard English or have their own native regionalisms? I would vastly prefer "youse guys" or even "yinz" if there were some reason to choose a folksy When people adopt "y'all" on purpose, what is the image they're aspiring to?

What is “yinz”? I have never heard this.

Signed a Memphian.

It’s a Pittsburgh thing. I was always told that it was an expression used by the many Eastern European immigrants there who worked in the steel mills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We lack a formal 2nd person plural in English. "Y'all" is, in my opinion, the best thing we have. I would never say "youse guys," how odd to even suggest it.

-from the west coast

We have one. It's the word you.

Technically, “you all” is the formal second person plural in English and it was what I was always taught to use.

Although, honestly, “you guys” doesn’t bother me in casual conversation because I always thought of “guys” in this context as referring to all the people being spoken to, without making any kind of gender distinction.

No, it's not. Unless you believe English was created in 1631.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/you