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Originally Posted by hooskins
Fair enough I shouldn't generalize, it really isn't all southerners but many Americans.
You haven't heard I-talian lol? It is frigging hilarious, it is pretty rare though.
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Oh, I've heard it. Usually the ones that say it that way are missing most of their teeth though.
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Another cool southern slang which I have been picking up at UVA is "y'all". One of my friends is from nashville and it funny, because once he was talking to me and asked me what "y'all" are doing today. I turned around to notice he was referring to only me. When I started laughing about it, he told me that the appropriate pluralization of "y'all" is "all y'all" which is amazing loll.
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He's correct about the proper uses of ya'll. Go to the TN/NC mountain area and you might even hear people referred to as us'ins (we) or you'ins (another form of ya'll). When the word "reckon" becomes a normal part of your vocabulary, then you can consider yourself properly assimilated.
