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by t-writescode 2056 days ago
English does not have a distinct, second-person plural. There are several regional attempts to make one.

Y’all is the Southern second-person plural, a contraction of ‘you all’ (you, second-person; all, suggesting more than one)

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this is becoming common in the rest of the US as well because of the lack of second person plural. they call it y'all sprawl. I hear it frequently here in Chicago.