What do you think, guys? Is “y’all” in trouble? For some time, “y’all” has been assaulted by “you guys” aiming to replace it as the go-to second-person-plural pronoun in the South. Is the Solid South ...

Growing up, it was common in my region of the United States to use the word “guys” with the second-person plural, as in: “How are you guys?” I didn’t think twice about using it until I learned the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You guys, what’s going on? How come we routinely say “guys” or “you guys” when talking to a group of two or more? A notable, even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Will Poulter say the line You Guys Are Getting Paid? Although the comedy film We're the Millers was met with mixed reviews from ...

Ever since we replaced “thou” with “you,” we’ve been left without a cut-and-dried plural second-person pronoun. Many terms have arisen to fill this language gap: “Youse,” “yinz” and “y’all” are all ...

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Hey, you guys ... why do we talk like this? Don’t you ever wonder why us New Jerseyans and much of America says “you guys” when referencing more than one person, even when the group includes men and ...