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Bookmark or Share- Why is "you all" contracted to "y'all" and not "you'll"?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- single word requests - What is the possessive form of "y'all ...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.
- When did “y’all” become improper? - English Language & Usage ...1. The only time one should use "y'all" in "proper American English" is when one is responding to the importunate proud parents of a newborn baby who demand to know "Which one of us do you think the baby looks like?" The diplomatic answer to this is "Why, the baby looks just like y'all!" – Dilip Sarwate.
- "Y'all" or "ya'll"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSep 21, 2010 at 18:56. 3. No. "You'll" is a contraction like "I'll": "Y'all" is a plural pronoun used in some varieties of English. – Colin Fine. Sep 23, 2010 at 17:06. 2. @Colin: the plural pronoun is certainly y’all, but I think Kosmonaut’s point is that ya’ll could also exist, as a different contraction. I could easily imagine things ...
- How is y’all’dn’t’ve pronounced - English Language & Usage ...Y'all is actually spoken more like 'yaw' as in yawn. The 've is essentially 'of,' pronounced the same as the first syllable in oven. In context, it would very likely be pronounced as a simple 'uh,' similar to 'woulda, coulda, shoulda.'. So in the end, you get something like 'yawna' or 'yawdna.'.
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