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Agreed. 

I’m originally from Gaston County, North Carolina, which is RIGHT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF THE BIBLEBELTED SWEET TEA DRINKING FUCKHOLE, and I said it all of my life up until I moved to the coast. Nobody says it unless they want to get beat up. 

Fucking.

Thank.

You.

It’s like, I hear it at home, and I hate it. If I’m calling for people, I say “hey you guys” or “hey guys”, but “ya’ll” is like…wat?

It pisses me off to no end.

Oh wow I wonder how it would feel to be as sophisticated as you are! How intelligent and classy!

I wish someone had just told me how much of a bumpkin I was, and am, because I learned to speak in local dialect! If only I, too, had been fortunate enough to live on the coast, where evidently I could have been curbed of my shameful habit by roaming bands of people who would “beat me up” for saying “y’all”! Astonishing! Perhaps a tour of the “coast” (would love to know which) would help me become acquainted with a better, more acceptable American English.

I was so ashamed by your shrewd linguistic analysis (“but “ya’ll” is like…wat?”) that I decided to quickly gather some information on the extent of this awful social problem. Luckily, Wikimedia provided a map of the areas where the phrase “y’all” is especially common.

[Map of US, states marked as saying “You all” “You guys”, “You”, or “Y’all”] So we could really grasp the scope of this issue, I did a quick search of the populations of these contraction-blighted areas. The results are grim. A full 25% of the US population is need of serious linguistic intervention, and fast!

[Table listing and summing the populations of the “y’all” states]

These figures aren’t good. With 25% percent of the US population admitted “y’all”-sayers, you have your work cut out for you: it will take quite a bit of time to cure the ignorance of 77,441,911 people! You have quite a lot of educating to do. However, I’m confident that with your help we can learn to curb our ways and quit being such moronic shitstains!

short OP: “lolol southern people are hicks”

Y’all is an awesome word, okay?  The English language needs a y’all.  Other languages have a second person plural, so why shouldn’t we?  And what are the alternatives?  “You guys”?  Oh, how classy and completely unproblematic wrt to gender!

TBH I think more non-Southerners should start using it.  I do.

It’s more class than region based, but there is a similar snobbery in Australia towards “youse”. And youse is right, second person plural words are super useful :) *spends a while wondering if I have the grammatical usage of “youse” right*

I say y’all because “you guys” is too gendered for my taste and I can’t say “yinz” for so many reasons I don’t have room to type them all.

But fuck anybody for looking down their nose at somebody because of dialect.

Y’all are classist. 

I have lived in NY my entire life and still use “ain’t” and “y’all” at times. I can’t help myself with “you guys” a lot, but I’ll keep working on that.

I ain’t looking down on anyone who uses them. That’s just plain old snobbery.