Cross over the Ohio River into Kentucky and you becomes y'all.
The South is known for its laundry list of unique, quirky, cultural sayings, like “Bless your heart,” or “Too big for his britches.” But the best-known word in the Southern vernacular is a most-loved pronoun: y’all. A contraction of “you” and “all,” y’all is used when addressing or referencing two or more people. Though y’all is inherently plural, in the instance of addressing a larger group of people, “all y’all” is more of a casual, slang phrase that’s sometimes used. Like how all soda is called Coke and all tea is sweet unless otherwise noted, y’all is a key piece of Southern verbiage that’s deeply engrained in our culture. Even Siri understands what means it now.
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