I use y'all mostly because people get gross and judgey when I say "yiz." It's deeply exhausting that the implications of the perfectly good second person plural from own Boston vocabulary are so profoundly classist in a way that y'all is less marked. Pittsburgians has successfully reclaimed yinz in a way Bostonians have not managed with yiz.
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I use y'all mostly because people get gross and judgey when I say "yiz." It's deeply exhausting that the implications of the perfectly good second person plural from own Boston vocabulary are so profoundly classist in a way that y'all is less marked. Pittsburgians has successfully reclaimed yinz in a way Bostonians have not managed with yiz.