a question of spelling preference

[keryx]

[Poll #1302360]

I've been told this is a US regional issue, but aside from a few people from Canada, the Northeast US and Louisiana who use the second, freakier spelling ("ya'll" - what's that, a contraction of "ya" and "all"?), most everyone else seems to use the other.

Comments

[chubbyninja.livejournal.com]

i wasn't sure if having two apostrophes in a word/contraction was allowed, but i suppose the rules went out the window when we started working under the premise that "y'all" is acceptable.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Since "ya" is a semi-accepted shortened form of "you," I think "ya'll" could logically be a contraction of "you will" without the "all" in it. An informal spelling of "you'll," in other words.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

That is certainly a well-established use of that contraction in Firefly-verse fanfiction.

[suzy-hendrix.livejournal.com]

awesome! So then, is it y'all're?