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[cyrano]

Posted as a query for the southerners on my list (both of them?):

If somebody types it out as ya'll, have they ever actually spoken the word? Or is this just one of those things where people can't spell?

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[mostuff.livejournal.com]

Everyone I know who has typed it out spells it as "y'all" (a contraction of "you all"). Those who type "ya'll" don't know the proper place for the apostrophe.

As stated above, it is pronounced as one syllable, "yall".

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I like the people you know, then. (:

[rightkindofme.livejournal.com]

I know the proper place for the apostrophe but I have grown up seeing it as "ya'll" so I still type it that way. There are many funky/odd things in English so I don't really feel like a colloquialism is a statement about overall intelligence or education.