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The UK doesn't have "y'all", or any equivalent; how do they manage? :lol:

I could revert to most British idiom and pronunciation fairly easily if I returned to the UK, but I suspect that "y'all" would be hard to drop for lack of an equivalent. :unsure:

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I use American when in England just to annoy folks.
Y'all
Wicked (wicked hot, wicked bad etc.)
Liberry for library
You guys, even when the group includes women.
Dude

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Quiche.

(Ja'mie).

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Come on!

"Real men don't eat quiche".

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There's hot and then there's quiche.

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The equivalent phrase is " Aal ye buggars".

HTH

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The only time I use "you guys" is when I address my dogs. Collectively, they are "you guys!". I haven't yet come up with a British equivalent unfortunately.

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"yous" is the nearest equivalent I can think of. But I think that it is a bit dialect restrictive.

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I think the problem with English is that it has dropped the second person singular form of verbs, again with a few regional dialectical exceptions (notably in Yarkshire) leaving "you" as singular and plural, but it is so often used as singular pronoun that an apparent vacuum has developed that has been filled in regional dialects by "y'all", "yous", "you uns"/ "y'uns", etc., but without an "approved" standard word to fill the gap.

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My Englishman stumped me the first time he told me to be careful when turning left by the "central reservation on the dual carriageway" (we were in the car), and it took me awhile to realize he was talking about the "median" in the highway. It also annoys him when I call a tissue a "Kleenex," but thinks it's perfectly fine to "Hoover" instead of vacuum... :)

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You all.

You lot.

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You realize you can't own an Englishman, at least not a genuine one, don't you? :unsure:

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Oh come on. You're owned. I'm owned. Just go with the flow.

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But surely that would mean one could buy "first prize in the lottery of life".

That can't be right.

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You can buy everything, in America. Or so I've heard.