What's the first thing that comes to mind when y'all read the phrase "Southern culture?" Sweet tea? Front porch chats lit by lightening bugs? Country music? Well, did the word "y'all" stand out as odd ...

Last week, a linguistic row between New York and Austin over the word "y'all" overlooked a "y'all" expert right here in Dallas with sanctified chops. On Thursday, Columbia University linguist John ...

Steve Follin purports to offer “A Lesson in Southern Lingo” (Letters, June 12), but his instructions don’t track with my North Carolina upbringing. In my experience, “you” is singular and “y’all” the ...

There is "tu" and "ustedes" in Spanish, and "tu" and "vous" in French. But English only has "you." The English language is somewhat unique in that it uses the singular form "you" as a second-person ...

This is a humor column ....unless you don’t laugh. Then it’s just a column. I’ve written many columns about the word “y’all” and its origins. As a y’all-aholic, I say and write it frequently, even ...

Southern Living magazine once described “y’all” as “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” It’s as iconically Southern as sweet tea and grits. While “y’all” is considered slang, it’s a useful word ...

There's only one correct way to spell it, y'all. Fact checked by Jillian Dara Y'all is a contraction of "you" and "all". The proper spelling of the contraction of "you" and "all" is "y'all". Y'all ...