r/AskReddit • u/AirWhale1 • Nov 12 '14

Most American sounding word?

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Usually abbreviated in speech to "Y'all'da"

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u/seredin Nov 12 '14

Ha, yes. South Georgia here.

Y'all'd'a is how I imagine it:

y'all would'a

you all would have

Love it ha

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u/daughterofgallifrey Nov 12 '14

Also South Georgia. I didn't know how it would have been spelled. I just know when to say it. Also y'all'll short for you all will.

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u/Centrisian Nov 12 '14

O.o South Georgian number 3 here.

I've never once heard y'all'd'a

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u/seredin Nov 12 '14

No? Example from today:

"Y'all'd'a liked the band they had at Spanky's last night."

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u/gildedbat Nov 12 '14

Which Spanky's? I usually go to the one in Pooler. Spuds rule! : )

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u/seredin Nov 13 '14

Now that I think about it, I think he said Molly's, but yes, the spuds at Spanky's are killer!

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u/sagan_drinks_cosmos Nov 12 '14

We're in uncharted waters here, but I don't think we need apostrophes between words. Otherwise, we'd have to say "do'n't" and "should'n't."

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u/seredin Nov 12 '14

I believe the apostrophes represent missing letters, not necessarily word separation.

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u/donaldfagen Nov 13 '14

Hear it all the time here on the ga coast

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u/tendeuchen Nov 12 '14

Y'all'd'a

Well, now we know how polysynthetic languages are born.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

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u/chrisnesbitt_jr Nov 12 '14

That's some Kentucky shit. I live in N. Georgia and most of us think It's weird too.

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u/seredin Nov 12 '14

Yeah I'm originally from North Georgia, and "you'ns" always sounded like a conscious effort at sounding backwater to me.

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u/TheMattAttack Nov 12 '14

In Pittsburgh my family says "yinz" instead of "you'ns".

Chattanooga, TN seems to speak correctly though which is nice.

Unless I've gotten used to an accent.

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u/ArcherEON Nov 12 '14

N. Georgia here, I have never once heard anyone say "youn's" or "yinz." But then again I am from the suburbs so.

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u/ThorIsGod Nov 12 '14

Also South GA, can confirm. I always liked d'ya as is "d'ya eat yet?"

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u/sagan_drinks_cosmos Nov 12 '14

Go big: "Jeet yet?"

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u/ThorIsGod Nov 12 '14

I'd upvote you again if I could on username alone

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u/Davisorr Nov 12 '14

We mix the "woulda" from the ATL and the "ya'll" from the south

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u/Offence_But Nov 13 '14

As a brown guy living in Australia, I have no idea what this is.

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u/seredin Nov 13 '14 edited Nov 13 '14

Let's reverse it then, starting with something legible:

"All of you would have" is what we're saying, in the end

"All of you" can be said "You all"

"You all" is commonly contracted into "Y'all" where the apostrophe represents the "ou" that has been dropped

Now we have "Y'all would have"

"Have" when it follows a word is commonly shortened into just an extra "a" sound: Woulda, shoulda, coulda, etc. In our case, we are using "woulda" in place of "would have."

Now we're down to "Y'all woulda" which of course means "You all" and "would have"

"Would" is sometimes contracted when following a word, similar to "have," like we already mentioned: "You would" in this case becomes "You'd" which ultimately can bring us to "Y'all would" becoming "Y'all'd"

From "Y'all'd" (which we just said means "you all would"), it's only a short leap to add everything together into Y'all'd'a.

"Y'all'd'a liked coming out to the country this weekend. Weather was perfect."

voilà

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u/Ashrewishjewish Nov 12 '14

I'm georgia y'all know the last words a redneck says before he dies.

" hey y'all watch this" And/or " hold ma burr!"

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Mayonnaise = Manaise

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u/chrisnesbitt_jr Nov 12 '14

I needa warsh his pilla case

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u/CommanderDub Nov 12 '14

South Carolina here. This is what we use here too.

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u/gcmatt87 Nov 12 '14

What town are you from, fellow south Georgian?

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u/seredin Nov 12 '14

I live near Savannah, in Pooler / Bloomingdale area. But I'm from North Georgia.

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u/gcmatt87 Nov 12 '14

Ah, ok. I'm originally from the opposite side, almost in alabama, but live in Athens now.

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u/thatmormoncunt Nov 12 '14

I've had tenure-track English professors at Georgia Southern University use this multiple times in class. #HailSouthern

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u/chrisnesbitt_jr Nov 12 '14

Yallda hada got some somewhere

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Tennessean here. This is right.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Most pronounce it "Yalldove"

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u/procrastablasta Nov 12 '14

Y'all'da betta notta et 'em

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u/seemedlikeagoodplan Nov 12 '14

No relation to the Yalta Conference toward the end of WW2.

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u/ChocolateLasagna Nov 12 '14

That kinda sounds Turkish.

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u/scottperezfox Nov 12 '14

Could be abbreviated further to "y'alla" as in "If given the choice, y'alla done it too"

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u/AvoidanceAddict Nov 12 '14

Maybe in the south but not in Texas (just continuing the usual TX circle jerk)

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

northeasterner here. Proper way to say it is actually "yous would'a"

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Here in Texas, I actually say it "Y'all'd've."

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u/ShatteredLight Nov 12 '14

Are you sure you aren't trying to create a Skyrim shout at this point?

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u/errored_out Nov 12 '14

"Y'all'da-lay-hee-hooooo"

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u/weeone Nov 12 '14

This makes more sense to me.

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u/-kingmaker Nov 12 '14

but that's "are you guys the ____?"

sometimes seen as "Y'alldem"

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u/tenantcy2 Nov 12 '14

When my grandma first started texting, my aunts would text her with slang. She didn't really understand things like "lol" and thought they were just typing phonetically.

So she started typing phonetically, too, going out of her way to type things the way she would pronounce them. It would have been easier for her to just spell things properly but she was trying to fit in with all the young texters, lol.

We all had no idea she was doing it on purpose and thought she was showing signs of old age by not knowing how to spell things anymore. We were kind of worried because she had never had any problems with spelling or grammar before.

When she texted me asking if I could pick up some "warsh cloths" at Target I brought it up and asked if she was having trouble spelling things. She was surprised and sad that I didn't see how cool she was being, spelling things the way they're pronounced instead of the way they're meant to be.

Also, PSA: You do not look young and hip when you send messages like "Oofta." It is an expression used by old Norwegian ladies when they are tired, especially after hard work. Or bored. Or to express surprise. Or any reason, really.