Personally I'm most likely to say "you guys", since "y'all" is a little silly coming from anyone who doesn't generally speak a Southern American dialect. I like it, though. Even if it inevitably reminds me of "Ode to Billie Joe".
Y'all, you guys, yous guys, or hey you all?
- 25/07/2015 05:38:44 PM
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Y'all may be the American South's greatest gift to the English language.
- 27/07/2015 12:14:47 AM
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"Hey, you guys!" is only correct if you are Rita Moreno
- 27/07/2015 04:15:07 AM
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Funny....
- 29/07/2015 12:13:35 AM
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That is because your fascist indoctrination prohibits viewing PBS' communist indoctrination 
- 29/07/2015 01:54:30 AM
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- 29/07/2015 01:54:30 AM
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well since language is a democracy and the souther dialetic is the largest Y'all wins
- 27/07/2015 02:07:22 PM
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The Southern dialect is the largest by what metric?
- 27/07/2015 06:26:20 PM
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It also the accent most similar to what Victorian brits would have spoken
- 27/07/2015 07:45:09 PM
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Whoa, now: The PIEDMONT accent may be closest to Received Pronunciation, but is not the whole South
- 28/07/2015 12:37:56 AM
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I don't make the catagories but all the southern accents tend to be close *NM*
- 28/07/2015 02:12:15 PM
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Except, as you noted, Virginias accent is closer to Englands (and New Englands, and South Africas)
- 28/07/2015 11:00:46 PM
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that is not what I said
- 29/07/2015 02:14:49 PM
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Sorry, I credited you w/knowing the Deep South, Appalachia and TX sound nothing like any UK accents
- 29/07/2015 07:42:21 PM
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read slower and then read again until you understand what I said
- 29/07/2015 08:14:19 PM
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"The people in the American South were Victorian Brits"?! I must have read that too fast
- 29/07/2015 10:39:08 PM
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Erm. Not really sure what you're saying here...
- 29/07/2015 11:35:26 PM
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Would "UK English" have been better?
- 30/07/2015 10:47:53 PM
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Not really.
- 31/07/2015 07:30:41 AM
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Like in most things Joel is wrong. The US has the larget population of English speakers
- 31/07/2015 03:20:51 PM
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As in most things, you admit failure to do your homework yet still claim absolute certainty
- 10/08/2015 02:30:34 AM
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David Crystal estimates proficient non-natives outnumber native English speakers 3:1
- 10/08/2015 02:45:58 AM
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what is not now considerd a proper British accent is called Received Pronunciation
- 31/07/2015 03:11:36 PM
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I already explicitly referenced RP at least twice in response to you (also: Still not a DIALECT)
- 10/08/2015 02:33:17 AM
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Actually, since you got me thinking, please enlighten us: What would you call YOUR English dialect?
- 30/07/2015 11:19:06 PM
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Sorry I did not put enough research into what I consider trivia but the point is stil valid
- 30/07/2015 01:30:39 PM
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Ok they sounded more like the British at the beggining of the Victorian era
- 30/07/2015 01:34:15 PM
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Trivial or not, absolute assertions absent even cursory verification invite trouble
- 30/07/2015 11:12:01 PM
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The Brits didn't change theway they spoke until the 19th century.
- 31/07/2015 02:50:23 PM
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Every land has always constantly changed how it speaks, RP was mostly complete by the 17th century &
- 10/08/2015 02:33:03 AM
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Who says "yous guys"? Seriously?
- 27/07/2015 07:56:28 PM
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Depends, are trying to sound cool, like a douche, or Joe Pesci? *NM*
- 29/07/2015 07:12:28 PM
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