If you all is "ya'll" then wouldn't we all be "wall"?

Question

I MUST KNOW!!! Is you are from the south tell me if you use this. Tanks lots hunnies!

Answer 1

If you look in the dictionary -- y'all is a derivative of you all -- and is not considered a slang. And NO -- we all would not result in w'all -- we all would be used as "us" or just "we". When saying "we" are going to the store -- you wouldn't say "we all are going to the store." You is considered singular -- y'all is not.

Yes -- southerner here and use y'all when it works for the situation when I am speaking.



Found from the source I have provided for you.

Y'all, a contraction of you all, is a second-person dual or plural pronoun in Southern American English, African-American Vernacular English, and Appalachian English.[1] Most speakers who use y'all use it as the plural form of you.

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1 Usage
2 Synonymy
3 Spread
4 Confusion with other Southern words
5 Cultural references
6 See also



[edit] Usage
Y'all is typically used only in informal situations, and is usually not accepted in (and even excluded from) formal speech and writing. It is sometimes used as a dual pronoun to refer to only two people, with a related form "all y'all" used for plural contexts. The possessive form of y'all is y'all's (e.g. "I really like y'all's house."), and the possessive form of all y'all is all y'all's. While y'all has begun to spread to general US English, all y'all and y'all's have not; y'all and your are used, respectively. In most areas of the South however, "all y'all" is never heard but simply "y'all" for two, ten, or ten thousand people.


[edit] Synonymy
Y'all is the Southern American English equivalent of various pronouns used in other varieties of English, which are often composed of you along with another word to signify plurality, e.g., the British phrase you lot, the Canadian English form you guys, or the less commonly used Northern American plural yous. It is notable that in Standard English there is no single separate word to represent the second-person plural pronoun; you is accepted as either singular or plural. All of you is often used as a more formal-sounding alternative.


[edit] Spread
Primarily due to the mass-migration of African Americans and other Southerners outside the South in the 20th century, the use of the word y'all in the United States has spread from its original regionalism. A number of entertainers and comedians (such as the members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour) from the South have brought the term to other parts of the nation. The substitution of plural you to y'all can be heard in every city in the US, but it is also used increasingly among some non-Southern American English speakers of all races and ethnicities, as well (particularly those who believe you guys to be inappropriate or sexist in connotation when addressing a group of women, for example). Its use is still more prevalent among African Americans and Southerners.


[edit] Confusion with other Southern words
Though formerly another spelling of y'all, the word ya'll has changed pronunciation (from /y-all/ to /yull/) and meaning (from "you all" to "you will") (which would properly be contracted "y'all'll (you will or y'all will))for most Southerners. [citation needed]Because of this, it is generally considered by them to be ignorant or foolish to continue to use ya'll as a replacement for y'all.[citation needed] Y'all is also commonly misspelled as yall (a Southern pronunciation of yowl, pronounced /yahl/). Like ya'll, this is looked down upon and generally discouraged by Southerners, though some insist on yall in order to emphasize its role as a regular pronoun.[citation needed] These usage differences are generally cited in the same manner as how people often confuse their, there, and they're. [citation needed

Answer 2

No, it would not be "wall".

The correct spelling of the southern coloquial contraction for "you all" is "y'all". First and most important, get this part right before you try to go further.

In the south, there's no such thing as "wall" as a contraction for anything (and obviously this is not a contraction to begin with, because there is no ' in the word), this word refers to a part of a building.

If you are trying to make a joke, the proper contraction for "we all" would be "we'll" not wall or even wa'll. Start remembering your high school English and use it.

Answer 3

Yall isnt formally a word so we can make our own definition outta of it. But wall has a definition to it already, and it wouldnt sound right if we was to say "wall is about to go shopping"

Answer 4

Yeah, I use ya'll , most southerners do, (really makes more sense than "you guys, since we all aren't guys) LOL who knows maybe we should start using wa'll (NOT)

Answer 5

Part of a building.

Answer 6

It's spelled "y'all" not ya'll.

And I'm from NY State -- nothing Southern about me.

Answer 7

I b'leeve the propah usage is "we'uns", if yoah gonna follah the prototype.

Answer 8

No. We say "we're" just like y'all.

Answer 9

you smell like lumpkin

Answer 10

i hear we all to be "we'ez"..pronounced we-eez