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Bookmark or Share- "all of you" vs "you all" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeBy comparing y’all and you all in Wiktionary, now I understand what you mean by saying that “you all” is ambiguous. But I find your way of stating it as “the ambiguity of whether you mean y’all or simply you all” pretty confusing. Thank you for trying to clarify it anyway. –
- How is y’all’dn’t’ve pronounced - English Language & Usage ...Y'all did not have. Y'all didn't have. Y'all didn't've. It would sound like, "Yawl dintuv," which is quite a bit shorter than "You all did not have." I did not keep the /d/ in didn't've because if the person is contracting this much already, they probably would say, "dint've." If you did want to keep the /d/ it would be pronounced, "didn'tuv."
- single word requests - Alternatives to y'all? - 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.
- How do you write the short form of "you all"?"Y'all" is a construction limited to a couple of American dialects, particularly Southern and Western speakers. I've heard it pronounced to rhyme with "wall" (approximately--the vowel gets slightly drawn out/duplicated). There is a joke poking fun at non-prestige dialects to the effect of "Remember, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural ...
- What is the proper usage of "Y'all" in southern American dialectsI'm a Southerner of the "you/y'all" variety (although all y'all doesn't sound foreign), so I'm curious if you could give a couple of examples where they're addressing you personally with y'all. I sometimes wonder if it's not either a phonetic misunderstanding (e.g. a drawled 'ya' for you) or a situation where you may be the only person in the ...
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