‘“Y'all” Is Going Mainstream’
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“English...doesn’t have a good second person plural pronoun; ‘you’ can be both singular and plural. ... ‘Y’all’ fills that second person plural slot—as does ‘you guys,’ ‘youse,’ ‘you-uns’ and a few others.”

This makes me wonder if we’ll ever say “they all” or “th’all” to mean the plural “they” so that the regular “they” can be the non-gendered singular form.

What do y’all think?

https://theconversation.com/yall-that-most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265