Around here we use "you guys" for the second person plural, with the exact same amount of inherent gender reference as "y'all" has. (My wife's all-female colle

Around here we use "you guys" for the second person plural, with the exact same amount of inherent gender reference as "y'all" has. (My wife's all-female college friends routinely refer to themselves as a group as "you guys", for instance.) Frankly, I sometimes use "y'all" in print, but as a non-Southerner feel like a poser saying it out loud.