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See also: you-all
English
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Pronoun
[edit]- All of you; plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
- I'm very happy to see you all.
- (idiomatic, chiefly Southern US, colloquial) You (with singular or plural referent); y'all. [from 19th c.]
- 1926, Hart Crane, letter, 2 March:
- I am really longing to see you “all”—as the Southerners say—and aren't you coming east this summer?
- 1946, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek:
- I ain't never been as far as you-all aim to go.
- 1926, Hart Crane, letter, 2 March:
Usage notes
[edit]- See the usage notes about y'all.
Synonyms
[edit]- See the list of other second-person plural pronouns at Thesaurus:y'all