#youall — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #youall, aggregated by home.social.
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As one who has studied #AncientGreek, I'm all for using the plural "you"! (And Greek, as well as many other languages, also had gender-neutral nouns).
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
July 16, 2025
Excerpt: "In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. An example found in a letter dating from the 1700s suggests that Scots-Irish immigrants brought their version of y'all to Appalachia and the South. Around that same time, enslaved people who were being taken to the South from #WestAfrica brought their own unique term that literally translates to 'you all,' Reed says.
" 'As like a huge nerd,' Wright says, 'I love that both of these things can be true, that it can be from Black people and Scots-Irish settlers all at the same time.' "
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As one who has studied #AncientGreek, I'm all for using the plural "you"! (And Greek, as well as many other languages, also had gender-neutral nouns).
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
July 16, 2025
Excerpt: "In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. An example found in a letter dating from the 1700s suggests that Scots-Irish immigrants brought their version of y'all to Appalachia and the South. Around that same time, enslaved people who were being taken to the South from #WestAfrica brought their own unique term that literally translates to 'you all,' Reed says.
" 'As like a huge nerd,' Wright says, 'I love that both of these things can be true, that it can be from Black people and Scots-Irish settlers all at the same time.' "
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As one who has studied #AncientGreek, I'm all for using the plural "you"! (And Greek, as well as many other languages, also had gender-neutral nouns).
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
July 16, 2025
Excerpt: "In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. An example found in a letter dating from the 1700s suggests that Scots-Irish immigrants brought their version of y'all to Appalachia and the South. Around that same time, enslaved people who were being taken to the South from #WestAfrica brought their own unique term that literally translates to 'you all,' Reed says.
" 'As like a huge nerd,' Wright says, 'I love that both of these things can be true, that it can be from Black people and Scots-Irish settlers all at the same time.' "
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As one who has studied #AncientGreek, I'm all for using the plural "you"! (And Greek, as well as many other languages, also had gender-neutral nouns).
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
July 16, 2025
Excerpt: "In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. An example found in a letter dating from the 1700s suggests that Scots-Irish immigrants brought their version of y'all to Appalachia and the South. Around that same time, enslaved people who were being taken to the South from #WestAfrica brought their own unique term that literally translates to 'you all,' Reed says.
" 'As like a huge nerd,' Wright says, 'I love that both of these things can be true, that it can be from Black people and Scots-Irish settlers all at the same time.' "
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As one who has studied #AncientGreek, I'm all for using the plural "you"! (And Greek, as well as many other languages, also had gender-neutral nouns).
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
July 16, 2025
Excerpt: "In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. An example found in a letter dating from the 1700s suggests that Scots-Irish immigrants brought their version of y'all to Appalachia and the South. Around that same time, enslaved people who were being taken to the South from #WestAfrica brought their own unique term that literally translates to 'you all,' Reed says.
" 'As like a huge nerd,' Wright says, 'I love that both of these things can be true, that it can be from Black people and Scots-Irish settlers all at the same time.' "