I grew up in the southeast US and while I don’t think I have a strong accent and have tried to cut other southern things out of my speech, I quite like “y’all”. In my opinion it’s the best gender neutral second person plural word. Most others are needlessly gendered or sound even weirder.
Y’all itself seems to be spreading, though.
It’s contagious as heck. I’ve never been to the South but somehow y’all fitted itself into my lexicon.
I try actively not to use it, because I associate it with a backward culture.
I grew up in the southeast US and while I don’t think I have a strong accent and have tried to cut other southern things out of my speech, I quite like “y’all”. In my opinion it’s the best gender neutral second person plural word. Most others are needlessly gendered or sound even weirder.