Is "y'all" wrong to say? I ask this because I heard Piscean say it is.
Is "y'all" wrong to say? I ask this because I heard Piscean say it is.
He was almost certainly using it light-heartedly as we don't use it in British English.
Y'all is not standard AmE either. It is dialect and is used primarily in the southern states. I consider it to be highly informal.
I am sure you never heard me say that. Can you provide a link to the thread in which I commented on y'all, please?
In the absence of a response, I searched the y'all posts. The only one I could find with a comment from me was this one. In it, I wrote to a person who frequently used y'all "Please use standard English forms in this forum".
Please don't claim I've said things I haven't, Osbri.
I am half Southern and I say it all the time.
In Pittsburgh, they say "yins."
In New York, they say "youze guys."
I've seen some British speakers say "You lot" would be a comparable use.
We all have our little foibles for how we say "you" to more than one person. Sometimes we would only say it very informally and sometimes it's so ingrained our speech patterns that we don't even notice.
I never heard "youze guys" in New York but I did hear "you guys" or "y'all".
So is it wrong or "unprofessional" to say that word?
You're not alone. Until I heard otherwise on this forum, I assumed "y'all" only referred to multiple people being addressed as a group. I thought it was short for "you all" or "all of you". I still can't really see how it works when addressing a single person. ;-)