I'm getting too old for this shit.
The fact is that “y’all” is pretty useful, as formal English doesn’t have a distinctly plural version of “you.” There is no “yous” (except in places like New York city and New Jersey, sometimes in the form of “youse guys”). This suggests that the referent is usually clear enough in context. But the existence of “y’all,” the related “you-all” and “all-y’all,” and other workarounds like “you guys” and “you lot” show that there is, in fact, room in the market for new second-person plural pronouns. Visitors to Texas typically realize the value of “y’all” within 48 hours.
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The Economist (via canineteeth

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See? Even The Economist is onboard with y’all. The rest of y’all just wish you were from the South.

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    And as a short-term resident of Texas in my childhood, I can’t get it OUT of my vocabulary…
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    As a Texan, I have to agree.
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    so useful. visit anywhere in the South, not just Texas, and it will become part of your regular vocabulary.
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    then there’s pittsburgh, in which case it’s never y’all and always yinz. Proud to be a motherfucking yinzer.
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    YES! Also this goes for “eh?” in Canada. Immediately you can turn a statement into a question without all the words....
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