I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y'all because it's ungendered!
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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I've always used y'all when greeting strangers because of this very reason.
I'm Texan. I say y'all quite often. Subconsciously. But when I think about it, it always seems weird. Like if I TRY to use it then it always seems wrong.
I don't think conservatism is about being rational it's about maintaining tradition or maybe morality, however it was defined by the previous generation.
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And now we wait for the inevitable "th'all", just to distinguish from the ever more popular singular they
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What about you'ins?