I picked up y'all when Toni and I became poly as a way collectively to address all of my/someone's partners, and it's turned into a convenient plural pronoun for general use.
The first article linked points out that there is currently no formal plural pronoun - "you" is dual purpose, and perhaps this is why "y'all" is spreading the way it is.
That, and it rolls off the tongue far more easily than "youse" :P
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Date: 2005-07-11 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-11 11:06 pm (UTC)That, and it rolls off the tongue far more easily than "youse" :P