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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]
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase. [1] Traditional grammars consider them to be a distinct part of speech, while most modern grammars see them as a subcategory of noun, contrasting with common and proper nouns.
Y'all; Ye (pronoun) Yinz; You; Z. Ze (pronoun) This page was last edited on 31 March 2013, at 05:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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The form y'all, personal pronoun, second person plural, in informal English has a full parallel in the form jullie, personal pronoun, second person plural, in informal Netherlandish (also known as Dutch). Both languages have been strongly influenced by (the polite use of) the French language.
“Those are pronouns,” host Ken Jennings responded. “Neopronouns.” The question and subsequent answer sparked a backlash online, with many X (formerly Twitter) users claiming they would ...
Examples of such pronouns sometimes seen and heard include: y'all, or you all – southern United States, [7] African-American Vernacular English, the Abaco Islands, [8] St. Helena [8] and Tristan da Cunha. [8] Y'all however, is also occasionally used for the second-person singular in the North American varieties.