This may well be true. I can’t imagine it ever coming out of my mouth, alas. It may not be a southern thing, but I do not believe it to be an English thing.
So sad to hear you of all people trying to gate-keep the English language. Unless, of course, you’re referring only to your particular birth place and cultural heritage.
But if it’s a language thing, sorry (not sorry) to say that you’re fighting a long lost battle. Y’all is as English as “gerrymander” and it’s filling in a lost linguistic niche that most other languages already have and English used to have.
I’m completely lost on this one. Someone asked if I had used yall in a tag, I said I hadn’t. Someone else said I should as it wasn’t just southern. I said I couldn’t imagine me saying it, whether or not it was southern. And now I’m being accused of trying to gatekeep the language (?). I don’t see anywhere that I criticised “y’all”. It’s a word and I love words. But I get to choose my own spoken vocabulary, as do we all.
Guys. I believe he was making a distinction between “y’all” being Southern and his own English (as in the country) vocabulary. Not gatekeeping, just stating that “y’all” probably won’t come out of his mouth because, you know, he’s British.
Ffs.
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