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A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...
y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y’at: you at yes’m: yes madam / yes ma’am ...
Y'all is a contraction of you all.The spelling you-all in second-person plural pronoun usage was first recorded in 1824. [4] [5] The earliest two attestations with the actual spelling y'all are from 1856, [6] and in the Southern Literary Messenger (published in Richmond, Virginia) in 1858. [7]
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The reason it seems interesting is because in modern English 1) the second-person plural is the only plural pronoun with two forms (in some dialects) - "y'all" and "you"; and 2) the second person pronoun has the same form in nominative and accusative. The combination of 1) and 2) is why "Y'all have the craziest stuff happen to you" is acceptable.
“And that’s how I want y’all to walk out of here tonight…” “But,” he continued, “you know, you can get yourselves gassed up, riled up and move towards the future…
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Y'all'dn't've should be added to the list as meaning "you all would not have". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.221.225.45 15:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC) I think this one is BS. I live in an area where "y'all" isn't all that uncommon, and I've never heard anyone come anywhere near this.