My Mom was from Western Pennsylvania. She would never think of 
referring to the plural you as "you all," or as "y'all." To her, if 
more than one of you were going somewhere, it would be, "Are y'uns 
goin' dawntawn?" If it was a really big group, it would be "y'unses"


Warren


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I had the reverse experience from the one
Bill Spruill quoted:

 

As
a native Southerner, I was amused (but not very surprised) to notice 
that my
students in Michigan
have their own plural version as well – “you guys.” It’s
used for both men and women (so the “guys” part doesn’t have
its usual masculine connotation) and, as kind of a clencher for the 
argument
that it’s acting as a unitary pronoun, the possessive in informal speech
is “you guys’s” (the last word sounds exactly like “guises”).

 

As a freshly transplanted Northerner in Wilmington, North
  Carolina, thirty years ago, I was invited by my chair
to play tennis. Some confusion arose about which tennis balls on the 
court
belonged to whom, and when the student on the adjacent court asked me, 
“Y’all
got all y’all’s balls?” I knew I wasn’t in Iowa any more.

 

Dick Veit



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Richard Veit

Department of English

University of North Carolina Wilmington








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