Ya'll/Yall

Being from the south, I don't even think of this one as a catchphrase. It is arguably the most commonly used word in the southern venacular, lol.

I haven't got a problem with it - as long as it's genuine and used in moderation.

I agree that it's normal in certain parts of the country, like The South and parts of The Midwest. Appropriate lingo if you're about to be evicted from a Lexington, Kentucky 7-11 for having no shoes or shirt. Downright bizarre if used during a debate in Parliament.

One thing coming from someone born and raised south of the Mason Dixon line. When it's coming from someone north of the line (I've occasionally heard it, once from an Irishman coming from an upper crust NJ background), it's the height of pomposity.

How ya'll doing? The limits of this 'word' have just been expressed; it can be used to address a person, or a stadium full of people. It is what is left from centuries of use of the Brit's "Ye all" and is probably the result of having been melted down by the Summer heat and those homemade brews. It's no accident that America has so many regional dialects; the "Ye all'ers" settled in the South; the French favored Naw Leans, Northern Europeans to the Upper Midwest and on and on. Like it or not, we are to some extent, a product of our environments. When I went to Michigan in Ann Arbor, the "Harvard of the Midwest", as some liked to say, I witnessed people from the Detroit area morph their speech patterns in an attempt to emulate the guy that Will Hunting trashed in the bar ("How do you like THEM apples?"). I lived in the Deep South for a couple of decades. At first, I had a bit of a problem understanding some things. I went into a lumber yard and asked the guy at the desk what sizes a ... Read more

Seems more than a little regional to me, A guy from Amarillo says this, thats ok. A guy from Dubuque, or Sudbury, or Bend, not so much.

When my family first came to TX in 1980 we had no clue what the hell yall meant? Up in Chicago, IL area it was always "you guys". Now yall has become the more common place term. At least in the south/southwest.