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.

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Re: in which I try to demostrate that I learned something about grammar

[keryx.livejournal.com]

This is exactly the reason I use "y'all". It's clearer than using "you" for "you", "all of you" and "one" (the abstracted "you").