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As someone born and raised in Michigan, I've adopted y'all in my own speech. I think its a fun and useful phrase if for no other reason than to confuse others a
by yoshamano 13y ago
As someone born and raised in Michigan, I've adopted y'all in my own speech. I think its a fun and useful phrase if for no other reason than to confuse others around here, lol.
I'm also glad to see Michigan properly represented. Us trolls that live under the bridge are quite different from the Yoopers who have more in common with Canada and cheese-heads. All in good fun though :)
- kpapke 13y agoThis is interesting. I'm from Michigan and it took me a couple re-reads to understand you were talking about Upper vs Lower peninsula. I'm from near Detroit, curious if you're more north of that? We generally compare more to Ohioans than "Yoopers" as you say. I've been living in NYC for a couple years and I've adopted some words and also had "pop" beaten out of me for soda.
- koenigdavidmj 13y agoI'm in Seattle, and plenty of people around here use y'all. Well, or we're just being ironic. Or we find a second person (explicitly) plural pronoun useful on occasion.