Table of Contents
33 relations: African-American English, African-American Vernacular English, Calque, Collective noun, Contraction (grammar), Early Modern English, English personal pronouns, Grammatical person, Great Smoky Mountains, Gullah language, H. L. Mencken, Indian South Africans, MÄori language, New Zealand, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ozarks, Pleonasm, Pronoun, Richmond, Virginia, Saint Helena, Scotch-Irish Americans, Southern American English, Southern Literary Messenger, Southern United States, The Week, Thou, Tristan da Cunha, Ulster Scots dialect, Variety (linguistics), Walt Wolfram, Ye (pronoun), Yinz, You.
- Modern English personal pronouns
- Second-person plural pronouns in English
- Slang of the Southern United States
African-American English
African-American English (or AAE; or '''Ebonics''', also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the set of English sociolects spoken by most Black people in the United States and many in Canada; most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. Y'all and African-American English are American English.
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African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.
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Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
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Collective noun
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole.
Contraction (grammar)
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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English personal pronouns
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Y'all and English personal pronouns are Modern English personal pronouns.
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Grammatical person
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
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Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains (Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States.
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Gullah language
Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African American population living in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia (including urban Charleston and Savannah) as well as extreme northeastern Florida and the extreme southeast of North Carolina.
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.
Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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MÄori language
MÄori, or te reo MÄori ('the MÄori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the MÄori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.
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Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
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Pleonasm
Pleonasm is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria and might be considered a fault of style.
Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Saint Helena
Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory.
Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners. Y'all and Southern American English are American English.
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Southern Literary Messenger
The Southern Literary Messenger was a periodical published in Richmond, Virginia, from August 1834 to June 1864, and from 1939 to 1945.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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The Week
The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.
Thou
The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English.
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Ulster Scots dialect
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
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Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram (born February 15, 1941) is an American sociolinguist specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English.
Ye (pronoun)
Ye is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". Y'all and Ye (pronoun) are Modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
Yinz
Yinz (see below for other spellings) is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English. Y'all and Yinz are Modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
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You
In Modern English, the word "you" is the second-person pronoun. Y'all and You are Modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
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See also
Modern English personal pronouns
- English personal pronouns
- Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
- Generic you
- He (pronoun)
- I (pronoun)
- It (pronoun)
- Neopronoun
- One (pronoun)
- Preferred gender pronoun
- She (pronoun)
- Singular they
- Subject complement
- Them
- They
- We
- Y'all
- Ye (pronoun)
- Yinz
- You
Second-person plural pronouns in English
- Y'all
- Ye (pronoun)
- Yinz
- You
Slang of the Southern United States
- Ain't
- Bless your heart
- Redneck
- Y'all
References
Also known as Ya'll, Yall, Ye aw, You all, Yuwal.