Ya'll vs. Y'all - A Texan's Anguish

[drcy]

For those linguistically inclined, this is what my mom's side of the family speak: Wikipedia: Yooper dialect

That's what my maternal first cousins, aunt and uncle speak, and what my grandmother spoke. And, as the article says, it can be difficult to understand at first.

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Originally Posted by drcy

For those linguistically inclined, this is what my mom's side of the family speak: Wikipedia: Yooper dialect

That's what my maternal first cousins, aunt and uncle speak, and what my grandmother spoke. And, as the article says, it can be difficult to understand at first.

That was a surprisingly entertaining read. What did we do before Wikipedia?

[the 'stache]

I tend to make people nuts when I talk. I was born in Milwaukee, raised in Waukesha, WI, and moved to Texas in 1989.

So, when I say something like "do y'all have a bubbler I can get a drink of water from?", invariably, somebody is confused.