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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 718522" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p><strong>Y'all</strong>, is a contraction or informal form of the phrase "you all", and is pronounced as one syllable (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="color: #002bb8">yawl</span></span></em></a>) or two (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #002bb8"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">YEW-awl</span></span></em></a>). It is used as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">plural</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">second-person</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">pronoun</span></a>. Commonly believed to have originated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Southern United States</span></a>, it is primarily associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Southern American English</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">African-American Vernacular English</span></a>, and some dialects of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Western United States</span></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Midwestern United States</span></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yall#cite_note-0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">[1]</span></a> It is also used outside the United States in the English-speaking islands of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">West Indies</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_English" target="_blank"><span style="color: #002bb8">Sri Lankan English</span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 718522, member: 12570"] [B]Y'all[/B], is a contraction or informal form of the phrase "you all", and is pronounced as one syllable ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key"][I][FONT=Arial Unicode MS][COLOR=#002bb8]yawl[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/URL]) or two ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key"][I][COLOR=#002bb8][FONT=Arial Unicode MS]YEW-awl[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/URL]). It is used as a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural"][COLOR=#002bb8]plural[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person"][COLOR=#002bb8]second-person[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun"][COLOR=#002bb8]pronoun[/COLOR][/URL]. Commonly believed to have originated in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States"][COLOR=#002bb8]Southern United States[/COLOR][/URL], it is primarily associated with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English"][COLOR=#002bb8]Southern American English[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English"][COLOR=#002bb8]African-American Vernacular English[/COLOR][/URL], and some dialects of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States"][COLOR=#002bb8]Western United States[/COLOR][/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States"][COLOR=#002bb8]Midwestern United States[/COLOR][/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yall#cite_note-0"][COLOR=#002bb8][1][/COLOR][/URL] It is also used outside the United States in the English-speaking islands of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies"][COLOR=#002bb8]West Indies[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_English"][COLOR=#002bb8]Sri Lankan English[/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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