When people get on my case for using the word y'all. I know I'm not from the South (but I did live in Texas for a stint where I could have picked it up OR it might have been my Texan ex-boyfriend of 2.5 years...) but I don't understand what's so wrong with it. It makes perfect sense and really doesn't sound redneck (ahem Jessie) if you give it a chance. Here try this example:
Y'all are a bunch of shit heads. = Perfect
You all are a bunch of shit heads. = Too long. Besides, most of us are lazy anyways and will slur you and all together.
You guys are a bunch of shit heads. = How do you know there aren't any female shit heads in this group?
You are a bunch of shit heads. = That is just incorrect grammar.
So y'all are thinking, GLittle, bad grammar grinds your gears!!! How could you possibly be endorsing y'all? People, times have changed. We have a black president now and I bet Obama has used y'all once or twice in his day. I'm going to petition my good pals Merriam and Webster for the addition of y'all to the English dictionary. Come on, if 'soul patch,' 'unibrow,' and 'mouse potato' can be added, why not y'all?!?
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