- When did “y’all” become improper? - English Language Usage . . .
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- Yall or yall? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- How correct is the Southern colloquialism yall in correct English . . .
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- Why is you all contracted to yall and not youll?
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- single word requests - Alternatives to yall? - English Language . . .
The proper New York spelling is Youse Wikipedia lists this variation as used in NYC and Chicago In formal English, the second person plural (speaking to more than one person) is formally "you" (other European Languages have a formal You, which is usually the same word as the second person plural used to address a singular, but because the word doesn't change in English we do or don't have it
- single word requests - What is the possessive form of yall . . .
I generally hear y'alls's used as the possessive form, but I have also heard yourn Since y'all is a colloquial pronoun, its possessive form is basically liberated from prescriptive linguistics which would probably say that y'all is a contraction for you all and therefore must be possessivized as of all of you
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- How do you write the short form of you all?
In formal settings, "you all" is never contracted to "y'all" (or hyphenated) It is pronounced just like it looks: "you all", with no contraction
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