Language Differences between USA and UK
#106
The UK doesn't have "y'all", or any equivalent; how do they manage? 
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.

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.
Last edited by Pulaski; Jun 29th 2014 at 1:02 am.
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Y'all
Wicked (wicked hot, wicked bad etc.)
Liberry for library
You guys, even when the group includes women.
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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.
#114
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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#115
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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