ya'll
contraction/jʌl/
Etymology Contraction of ya + will. By surface analysis, ya (“you”) + 'll.
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Contraction, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of you'll.
- Don't go in, ya'll only make thins worse.1857, Barry Alan Grael, work based on Dion Boucicault's play, The Streets of New York http://books.google.com/books?id=dVr8FZH65foC, page 70
- Yis, yis; ya'll be forced, or else ya'll tak t' luck awaäy wi' ya, an' that wad niver deä.1886, Donald MacLeod, editor, Good Words for 1886, page 201:
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- Bill's spilin' for a fight, / An' one o' these black God-forgotten days / He'll let tha devil tap 'im on tha shoulder, / An' then ya'll see what happens.1921, Robert Norwood, Bill Boram, page 52:
- Ya'll like that. Ya'll come out smellin like a rose, looking like one, too.1985, V.C. Andrews, Heaven, →ISBN, page 243:
- Ya'll only ever be Xavier Cassidy's work horse. He won't treat ya right.2002, Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats, page 24:
- But then ya'll only have two oxen if ya do that, Mrs. Burt.2006, J. R. Reynolds, Sustenance of Courage, page 281: