The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful ...

A University of Alabama professor told NPR that people under 40 in all parts of the country have taken a liking to “y’all” ...

And then there’s our precious gem, “y’all,” a staple of both Southern English and African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which either spun from or spun off Southern English itself.

“Y’all” is the most identifiable feature of the dialect known as Southern American English. It simply and elegantly fills out the pronoun paradigm gap that occurs in dialects that have only ...

Old English had singular and plural forms of “you,” and these eventually morphed into the formal “you” and informal “thou” pronouns you find in Shakespeare and the King James Bible.