How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always wondered why y’uys didn’t become a thing where people say you guys. I grew up with y’all. It’s efficient and lol gender neutral and inclusive which is added bonus and ironic coming from the south

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I grew up around Seattle and also with y’all.

    Of course, a lot of people say ‘you guys’ and either don’t care or have decided that it’s gender non deterministic because ya’ll is cringe and racist-coded.

    Never even heard of y’uys.

    Would that be pronounced Yaiz?

    ???

    Anyway, half of those questions I could have answered with half of the options given, as they’re all common enough that most people either know what they mean or use them… and then the other half of the questions were basically just one answer.

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    • quicksand@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Annoy every region in the US speedrun

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I dunno about yins, but you’ns is crazy if’n y’all don’t use alla’yous’n’em

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  THANK YOU FOR THIS!

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• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Americans say “youse” too? Huh, I thought that was exclusively a bogan thing

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  • rozwud@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My mom grew up in the rural outskirts of Cincinnati and says youse. Meanwhile my dad, who grew up more inside the city, constantly made fun of her for it.

    I got Cincinnati and two random places I’ve never even visited as my top three results, probably because my way of speaking is a super mixed bag from living in different places. Language is weird.

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  • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, mainly in the northeast. I’m in the southeast and I basically only hear it from cartoon mobsters.

    Surprised it’s not more widespread, actually. It seems like the easiest way to pluralize “you”.

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  • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    East coast Canadians as well.

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• Repelle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “You folks” for life. Why was this not an option?

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you say “Hey you folks” to address a group? It sounds awkward to me.

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    • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe just “Hey folks”?

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• Alice@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The one about it raining when the sun is out is a trick question. It’s definitely called “the devil beating his wife”, but I don’t call it that because that’s weird

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Several of those are direct translations of places that Americans immigrated from

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I somehow wound up in Fresno and Boston the first time I took the quiz.

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• MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yas (pronounced yuhz)

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