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Originally Posted by kazbates
I'm not a southerner but I do live in Virginia!  |
What's funny is that while my parents are from and I was born in North Carolina, I have no accent (or so I've been told). Sometimes, when I'm out of the state and use "y'all", I get some pretty strange looks - people expect you to have a deep southern drawl if you use terms like y'all.
To tell you the truth, I think that y'all might be falling out of usage in Virginia, at least in the urban areas (I live in the Hampton Roads area). I hear 'you guys' more often than y'all and not just from the military folks.