Have you been raised to use the term, "y'all" for "you all"?

Question

I thought it was just a New Orleans term.

Answer 1

Virginia native here y'all. Yup, I use it all of the time.

Answer 2

I never realized I even said y'all until I moved to Indiana for a couple of years. People would always laugh when I said it. Y'all just don't know how glad I am to be back in good ole Texas.

Answer 3

I use both, one is just a contraction for the other. I really don't see how Northerners can function using only a singular word for singular AND plural.
Oh, and the useage is increasing. People just find it's use convenient.
I'm from Texas.

Answer 4

I was born and raised in Texas. We use the term YALL all the time. If you read my posts or answers to posts you will see that I am constantly using YALL in them.

Answer 5

I was not raised to do this, but I lived in the south and it was commonly used to mean you all or the plural of you

Answer 6

well no y'all is not just a term used in New Orleans, we use it alot here in Ky, as a matter of fact if you go to Florence Ky you will see on their water tower "Welcome to Florence Y"ALL".

Answer 7

Yes, it is even used at times in Ohio.

Answer 8

aI think its a regional expression, based on dialect. We are from Chicago, but, in moving from the northern to the southern states and back again, find that our children are pronouncing "the" as "thee", and getting it marked wrong. My grandma used to say, "I say potato (long a), you say potato (long ah), I say tomato (long a), you say tomato (long ah)"

Answer 9

I'm from Canada and we dont' use that term here.

Answer 10

Nope, in the U.S. it is a generic Southern term.
I took it as my Y!A nickname.