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05-15-2014, 06:55 PM
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Since it's a contraction for "you all", the apostrophe goes between the "y" and the "a".
You don't hear it used a lot in Brooklyn. 
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05-15-2014, 07:22 PM
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05-15-2014, 07:28 PM
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"Youse guys" would be classic Brooklynese.
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05-15-2014, 07:32 PM
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Thanks Barry. Heading to Brooklyn this summer with my daughter, and we don't want to look like Rubes.
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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05-15-2014, 07:47 PM
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Actually, I might go easy on the "youse guys".
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05-15-2014, 08:08 PM
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"Y'all" is a word I use regularly.
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05-15-2014, 09:26 PM
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I like to use it in conjunction with my other favorite Southern contraction, fixin.'
As in, "Whatta y'all fixin' to do?"
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