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So we're all in the car and my Polish mother in law, who has never lived south of Toledo, Ohio, is telling my kid how she has a southern accent.  My kid is saying, "No you don't, not at all." and I am wondering if it is valid for someone to self-identify as having a southern accent, and if I am then socially required to agree with their self-image in spite of all evidence.

So my mother in law goes ahead and proves she has a southern accent.... with the slight lilt in her voice she says, "You all.  See?"

See actually enunciated YOU and then ALL.

If she had a single ounce of a sense of humor I'd have thought she was kidding.


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It was a car full 'o Yankees, from hood to hitch, anyway.  I wouldn't expect any better than that.  *sigh*

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Well, personally, I self-identify as southern.  I just don't pretend I have a perfect southern accent..... but I do know the correct usage of both y'all, and all y'all.

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Sure, but that's easy.  What about you'uns and y'all'uns?

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Southern is one of a few accents I can fake at will.  I get less convincing the more you pin down a region.

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Sure, but that's easy.  What about you'uns and y'all'uns?

My best friend coming up was from parents who were born and raised in Appalachia.... yes, I know y'uns.

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The Pennsylvania/Appalachia y'uns is a yankee thing, not a southern thing.

You'uns is y'all applied to a group of children.  Y'all'uns is the all y'all equivalent.


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The usage is the same, then.  Y'uns seems more genuinely lazy though, so it seems more legitimate.

Edited by GORDON on Jun. 02 2015,17:35

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Huh.  That's the first I've heard that y'uns is specifically reserved for addressing groups of children.  I stand corrected.

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Huh.  That's the first I've heard that y'uns is specifically reserved for addressing groups of children.  I stand corrected.

Well, I guess I should clarify.... his Mom always said it to us when we were children, so... that's the usage I know.  I don't know if was ONLY to be used with children.  I could probably ask her, she lives about 2 houses down from me.

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