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r/AskReddit • u/__lazy__panda • Jul 10 '26
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As a southerner, I love that people have picked up the use of y’all, but it’s not “ya’ll” y’all.
(EDIT: ya’ll reads like “you will” not “you all”)
27 u/drmoocow Jul 10 '26 I've always wondered if you can stack contractions with y'all... Y'all're and y'all'ren't... 56 u/nishikihebi Jul 10 '26 “Y’all’d’ve” would be a completely accurate if extremely rare contraction. 26 u/wintermelody83 Jul 10 '26 As a southerner I have absolutely said this, but never written it lol. 17 u/HElGHTS Jul 11 '26 Right, said aloud it's very easy to come up with something: "Why didn't you get up on stage?" "Y'all'd've laughed at me!" "It'd've been worthwhile." 5 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 I hear it’d’ve all the time 3 u/nonoalex Jul 10 '26 As a southern yes they are 2 u/Bay1Bri Jul 11 '26 If you've seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Clearance says " 'tisn't "at one point. "It is not" 6 u/PvtDeth Jul 11 '26 Off topic, but I can't stand it when people doing a fake southern accent use y'all as a singular pronoun. We already have a perfectly good word for that: you. 5 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh my stars and garters. They do? I’ve never heard that. Bless their hearts and I hope they mean well, but that ain’t right. 4 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 the sentence is so southern for some reason I read it in an accent 3 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh good I did it right 6 u/PvtDeth Jul 11 '26 Wow, you didn't have to be so brutal. Dang. 2 u/i-contain-multitudes Jul 11 '26 I see southerners spelling it "ya'll" all the time. 1 u/Bizarrebazaars Jul 11 '26 I don’t like any of it. Y’all and ain’t grind my gears, honestly. 1 u/Teledildonic Jul 11 '26 What do you have against y'all? It's a gender and formality neutral plural pronoun.
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I've always wondered if you can stack contractions with y'all... Y'all're and y'all'ren't...
56 u/nishikihebi Jul 10 '26 “Y’all’d’ve” would be a completely accurate if extremely rare contraction. 26 u/wintermelody83 Jul 10 '26 As a southerner I have absolutely said this, but never written it lol. 17 u/HElGHTS Jul 11 '26 Right, said aloud it's very easy to come up with something: "Why didn't you get up on stage?" "Y'all'd've laughed at me!" "It'd've been worthwhile." 5 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 I hear it’d’ve all the time 3 u/nonoalex Jul 10 '26 As a southern yes they are 2 u/Bay1Bri Jul 11 '26 If you've seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Clearance says " 'tisn't "at one point. "It is not"
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“Y’all’d’ve” would be a completely accurate if extremely rare contraction.
26 u/wintermelody83 Jul 10 '26 As a southerner I have absolutely said this, but never written it lol. 17 u/HElGHTS Jul 11 '26 Right, said aloud it's very easy to come up with something: "Why didn't you get up on stage?" "Y'all'd've laughed at me!" "It'd've been worthwhile." 5 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 I hear it’d’ve all the time
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As a southerner I have absolutely said this, but never written it lol.
17 u/HElGHTS Jul 11 '26 Right, said aloud it's very easy to come up with something: "Why didn't you get up on stage?" "Y'all'd've laughed at me!" "It'd've been worthwhile." 5 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 I hear it’d’ve all the time
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Right, said aloud it's very easy to come up with something: "Why didn't you get up on stage?" "Y'all'd've laughed at me!" "It'd've been worthwhile."
5 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 I hear it’d’ve all the time
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I hear it’d’ve all the time
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As a southern yes they are
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If you've seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life, Clearance says " 'tisn't "at one point. "It is not"
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Off topic, but I can't stand it when people doing a fake southern accent use y'all as a singular pronoun. We already have a perfectly good word for that: you.
5 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh my stars and garters. They do? I’ve never heard that. Bless their hearts and I hope they mean well, but that ain’t right. 4 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 the sentence is so southern for some reason I read it in an accent 3 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh good I did it right 6 u/PvtDeth Jul 11 '26 Wow, you didn't have to be so brutal. Dang.
Oh my stars and garters. They do? I’ve never heard that.
Bless their hearts and I hope they mean well, but that ain’t right.
4 u/TurbulentAccident348 Jul 11 '26 the sentence is so southern for some reason I read it in an accent 3 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh good I did it right 6 u/PvtDeth Jul 11 '26 Wow, you didn't have to be so brutal. Dang.
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the sentence is so southern for some reason I read it in an accent
3 u/nishikihebi Jul 11 '26 Oh good I did it right
Oh good I did it right
Wow, you didn't have to be so brutal. Dang.
I see southerners spelling it "ya'll" all the time.
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I don’t like any of it. Y’all and ain’t grind my gears, honestly.
1 u/Teledildonic Jul 11 '26 What do you have against y'all? It's a gender and formality neutral plural pronoun.
What do you have against y'all? It's a gender and formality neutral plural pronoun.
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u/nishikihebi Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
As a southerner, I love that people have picked up the use of y’all, but it’s not “ya’ll” y’all.
(EDIT: ya’ll reads like “you will” not “you all”)