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[audie]

Ahem.

"Y'all" is a perfectly legitimate contraction for "you all," which is a clear and genteel manner of indicating the plural pronoun "you." As a contraction, the apostrophe is necessary in the United States to replace the omitted letters. (In the UK, apostrophes are sometimes not used in contractions. I'm not sure I like that.)

"You guys" is crass, unless one is speaking exclusively to a group of guys. I am not a guy, and I don't respond to people who address me as one.

"You'ns" sounds moronic, but it's really oxymoronic. It combines the plural "you" with "ones." Kind of a plural multi-singular.

Any questions?

thanks for the english lesson ya'll

 

[shakennotstirred]

Ahem.

"Y'all" is a perfectly legitimate contraction for "you all," which is a clear and genteel manner of indicating the plural pronoun "you." As a contraction, the apostrophe is necessary in the United States to replace the omitted letters. (In the UK, apostrophes are sometimes not used in contractions. I'm not sure I like that.)

"You guys" is crass, unless one is speaking exclusively to a group of guys. I am not a guy, and I don't respond to people who address me as one.

"You'ns" sounds moronic, but it's really oxymoronic. It combines the plural "you" with "ones." Kind of a plural multi-singular.

Any questions?

Yunz guys need to quit arguing about y'all!

 

[NoHall]

Arguing? Didnt mean it. Im kind of a smart-aleck.

Luv...

 

[audie]

Yunz guys need to quit arguing about y'all!

but i wasn't arguing - i was being corrected. again....:roll: