Is ya'll grammatically correct?

Answer 1

Absolutely not. Period.

Answer 2

Y'all is grammatically correct in Texas and will be everywhere soon enough if not now. If you ain't ready to believe that take the word ain't as an example. My elementary teachers constantly harped on those of us in their sphere of influence that "ain't is not a word". Look in the dictionary today and I'll be dogone if you don't find it there. When a word is commonly used by enough people it becomes a word whether or not the rest of us like it or not. Funny though how America seems to resist words derived from Southern roots (perhaps because they think southern equals dumb); yet they readily accept new words all the time from other sources. Probablely ain't fixn to get the best answer here but y'all thank bout dis a bit mo ya hear.

Answer 3

No, not strictly speaking. However, the alternate spelling, "y'all," could be considered grammatically correct.

This is because the grammatical rules of written English allow for an apostrophe to be used in place of an elided letter (or sound). The same grammatical rule that makes "you'll" grammatically correct (dropping the "a"), also makes "y'all" correct (dropping the "ou").

"Ya'll" isn't strictly grammatically correct, as it appears to either use "ya" as alternate construction of "you," which isn't grammatically acceptable; or else, places the elision at the wrong point in the word structure (in the middle of the word "all").

Mark Twain used the correctly elided version in his novels, and it was also common practice in Shakepeare's time to elide sounds, even in the middle of words using this convention, in particular, with -ed endings, so that the syllable "ed" would not be pronounced, thus allowing for regular iambic pentameter (e.g. banish'ed, tarnish'd, vanish'd).

Answer 4

It means YOU ALL and it is not gramatically correct because you is already plural. In English you can be singular or plural, meaning you would say "Do you have a dollar" to one person as well as to a group of a hundred people. The you doesn't change.
Y'all is short for "you all" which would be more correctly stated saying "All of you" or just "you." HOWEVER, I am more than aware of the fact that it is totally accepted and embraced in the South and I have heard everyone from doctors to a man with a PhD in education use it, so I'm not going to say it's not ok.

Answer 5

A redundant answer here, but no, the contraction should be Y'all--as in you all and never Ya'll.

Just ignore all them Yankees about using the South's favorite contraction. All Cajuns and other assorted wildlife here in Louisiana say, "Y'all better come back, heah?"

Answer 6

It certainly doesn't fall into "the kings English".
But ... we don't have a King anymore, do we?

It is NEVER accepted in formal writing, but
only as quoting someone else.

So, I would say that practically speaking, no
it is not gramatically correct. If it isn't acceptable
in formal writing - then clearly when you do
use it you are only trying to convey local dialect.

Answer 7

You all is the grammatically correct plural of you. It is not correct to say you all if the speaker is referring to one person. The contraction of you all is correctly spelled y'all.

Answer 8

yup- yup i is
i done got learned to spoke real fancy like in the oragonian hills babe my ole lady even put me at the head of the class

Answer 9

yep, shore nuff is, its in that thar southern dictionury.Aint nary a thang wrong with it. Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

Answer 10

I doubt it. But it sure sounds better than 'you guys' when there's a bunch of women in the group.

Answer 11

In Texas it is.... LOL
I does mean You All....Maybe it is grammatically correct, kinda like "can't" or "don't"