Texas does not have a monopoly on y'all. Y'all is collective, both as a noun, and as ownership. Y'all is Southern for Comrade.

Was this post designed to offend all non Texan southerners

I refuse to accept Texas' claim on y'all. Its a word collectively owned by everyone south of the mason-dixon line and I will fight to the death over this.

Signed, floridaman

Y'all is not Texan. Y'all is Southern and Texas is Southern wannabe.

“You” is also ungendered. There seems to be a common idea that English is missing a second person plural. We have one, it’s “you”. We just stopped using the second person singular. That’s what all those variations of “thee, thou, thy” etc were.

“Y’all” would be a superpluralization. If that’s still not enough we also have the ultraplural form of, “all y’all”

That’s why conservatives have started to say yim’all and yer’all in order needlessly gender the expression. Can’t believe these folks sometimes.

Edit: 😂

Bless your heart

It's actually a contraction from old English or Scots and has been around since 1631. The hicks are using socialist words that aren't theirs.

y'all is second person plural. First and Second person aren't gendered. Therefore, I is also woke

Y'all is the best pronoun.

It's second person can be used singular or plural, and the difference is all contextual.

It's ungendered and it's makes almost anything feel "more fun."

For those of you who aren't woke yet, I just made a fresh pot of coffee.

Y'all Texans can go to hell for trying to claim y'all.

• Signed a Louisianan

P.s. your El Paso 857 sign can go right to hell too.

the oldest published "Y'all" was from Richmond Virginia in 1856 in the Southern Literary Messenger

Y'all was created to serve a completely artificial problem.

English has second person singular pronouns, but for some dumbfuck reason we've deprecated them. It's still maintained in the standard for compatibility with legacy literature but not recommended for new works. If thou talk'st this way, thy speech comes off as archaic/shakesperian/biblical. So we use the second person plural for everything. But this removes the ability to encode context on how many thou art addressing. "You! Go put that fire out." Are you talking to an individual in a group or the whole group?

So the American south turned "you" into the singular form and invented "you all" contracted to "y'all" for the plural form.

Now we just need to fix the first person plural problem, ie "We've just won the lottery!" Does "we" include the listener, or not? English doesn't encode that information; "we" don't have different words for "myself the speaker and the listener(s) and perhaps others" and "Myself the speaker, others, but not the listener."

From now on, my pronouns are yall

The onlie trans community uses y'all a lot. And howdy and haiii :3

"language is the universal whore that i must make into a virgin"

I started using y'all years ago due to its ungenderedness, in part from being in queer spaces. Walking into a room of trans women and enbies and saying "you guys" felt weird.

It's also a good substitute for "you guys"