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B-movie mobsters Joel Send a noteboard - 28/07/2015 12:40:04 AM

View original postPersonally 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".

Possibly our "anonymous" NJ mayor also; I understand the phrase to be "a Jersey thing."
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Y'all, you guys, yous guys, or hey you all? - 25/07/2015 05:38:44 PM 1119 Views
Y'all may be the American South's greatest gift to the English language. - 27/07/2015 12:14:47 AM 749 Views
*whistles innocently* - 27/07/2015 04:17:43 AM 894 Views
"Hey, you guys!" is only correct if you are Rita Moreno - 27/07/2015 04:15:07 AM 713 Views
Perhaps, but you're also wrong. - 27/07/2015 04:45:48 AM 961 Views
Both spellings are "correct" to the extent EITHER are. - 27/07/2015 05:04:43 AM 942 Views
Funny.... - 29/07/2015 12:13:35 AM 816 Views
It is also correct if you are Sloth... on a pirate ship... *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:09:56 PM 585 Views
I will defer to you and Jeordam on that one - 29/07/2015 07:45:31 PM 799 Views
well since language is a democracy and the souther dialetic is the largest Y'all wins - 27/07/2015 02:07:22 PM 878 Views
The Southern dialect is the largest by what metric? - 27/07/2015 06:26:20 PM 860 Views
It also the accent most similar to what Victorian brits would have spoken - 27/07/2015 07:45:09 PM 793 Views
Whoa, now: The PIEDMONT accent may be closest to Received Pronunciation, but is not the whole South - 28/07/2015 12:37:56 AM 877 Views
I don't make the catagories but all the southern accents tend to be close *NM* - 28/07/2015 02:12:15 PM 543 Views
Except, as you noted, Virginias accent is closer to Englands (and New Englands, and South Africas) - 28/07/2015 11:00:46 PM 837 Views
that is not what I said - 29/07/2015 02:14:49 PM 853 Views
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 819 Views
read slower and then read again until you understand what I said - 29/07/2015 08:14:19 PM 1067 Views
"The people in the American South were Victorian Brits"?! I must have read that too fast - 29/07/2015 10:39:08 PM 811 Views
Erm. Not really sure what you're saying here... - 29/07/2015 11:35:26 PM 771 Views
Would "UK English" have been better? - 30/07/2015 10:47:53 PM 813 Views
Not really. - 31/07/2015 07:30:41 AM 769 Views
David Crystal estimates proficient non-natives outnumber native English speakers 3:1 - 10/08/2015 02:45:58 AM 740 Views
Interesting stuff. - 10/08/2015 07:12:26 PM 845 Views
Who says "yous guys"? Seriously? - 27/07/2015 07:56:28 PM 790 Views
B-movie mobsters - 28/07/2015 12:40:04 AM 968 Views
They said it when I lived in Chicago - 28/07/2015 02:10:27 PM 781 Views
Scots. - 28/07/2015 02:42:28 PM 818 Views
I have heard it a couple of times. - 28/07/2015 03:13:20 PM 763 Views
Isn't fake culture almos the defintion of hipster? *NM* - 28/07/2015 05:18:53 PM 398 Views
Depends, are trying to sound cool, like a douche, or Joe Pesci? *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:12:28 PM 600 Views
The distinction between the first two is negligible - 29/07/2015 07:52:50 PM 815 Views

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