Originally Posted by bearisgray
My niece is a transplant to Texas from Minnesota - and she's picked up a lot of the expressions - you-all and fixing come to mind.
Actually, you-all makes some sense. You is singular and you-all is plural.
No, bear, "Y'all" is singular and "All Y'all" is plural. You-all is something that people who moved from North to South use in place of Y'all. Or maybe it came from somewhere else, but not from the South.
And here in the South, "Coke" is generic. "Does anyone want a coke? What kind?" I do still use "Pop" when I go back to Ohio, though.
I absolutely cannot stand when someone says "Awnry" for Ornery. For some reason that drives me nuts.