I feel like this is an underappreciated fact: the American South is not the only place where people say y’all. My partner’s Indian South African relatives use it just as extensively (although they usually spell it your’ll!). Apparently it evolved separately in the two dialects.
Posted by Jessica Smith on .
Filed under Languages, Quite Interesting and tagged with English.
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