linguistic note

[anotheranon]

The spread of y'all - it's not just for Southerners anymore.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

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.

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

And it avoids the "sexist" 'you guys'!

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

In my Latin class in HS when declining nouns we used:

I You He/She/It
We Y'all They

Mine Yours His/Hers/Its
Ours Y'alls Theirs

Etc.

Admittedly, I went to HS in a rural southern town, but really, it worked well for distinguishing singular and plural.

And, technically, even with "thou" and "ye" there was a hole, as thou is a familiar form (much like the difference between du and sie in German).