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"You guys" is a fairly new term. It must have been started by teenagers sometime in the 80's. I had never heard it before then. My older daughter starting saying it as a preteen back then. I can remember the conversation we had about it. My husband asked her why she was calling her girfriends "you GUYS." She said at the time that it was a gender neutral term. Ok. Now, it has just become part of the local accepted culture. It is never used with "youse". That is completely different and much, much longer in use.
That’s a cool map but I would say the Appalachian Twang/Draw extends into much of West Virginia. Arkansas accent sounds pretty similar to a southern Appalachian accent at least from what I’ve heard. Plus Virginia is like a coastal southern it’s not really that comparable to Kentucky, Arkansas, or West Virginia. Missouri also I would say it would extend at least to Saint Louis…..There is somewhat of a southern dialect influence there.
I'm from Philly, now live in norfolk, went back to Philly, and my whole family said I have a tidewater accent. I can't tell, but people here say warter, 'do, 'sto, NAWFAWLK insted of NOR-FOLK! I think SE V.A should have it's own category.
hahaha yeah I typed it the same way but they blocked it out so i wrote fawlk! Haha newpert news!
suf****, it's kinda cool they/ we have our own dialect.. once you get outta the norfolk/ VB metro everyone says norFOLK
I would have included another region made up of South Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, and parts of eastern VA perhaps. People in this area don't sound southern at all and have a distinct accent. Also, northern New England sounds a lot different and slower than southern New England.
"You guys" is a fairly new term. It must have been started by teenagers sometime in the 80's. I had never heard it before then. My older daughter starting saying it as a preteen back then. I can remember the conversation we had about it. My husband asked her why she was calling her girfriends "you GUYS." She said at the time that it was a gender neutral term. Ok. Now, it has just become part of the local accepted culture. It is never used with "youse". That is completely different and much, much longer in use.
...I can remember hearing "you guys" constantly in the 1970s, and even back into the late '60's. I think the expression "youse" goes back even further, but it was largely limited to large urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest.
You guys is becoming more and more common al lthe time because it is what is used in the media. It's not often you hear y'all used. By the way, here in Kentucky most people use y'all AND you all, not just one or the other.
The only time we ever say y'all in my family is to imitate Paula Deen.
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