I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y'all because it's ungendered!
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I'm Texan. I say y'all quite often. Subconsciously. But when I think about it, it always seems weird. Like if I TRY to use it then it always seems wrong.
And now we wait for the inevitable "th'all", just to distinguish from the ever more popular singular they
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