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For example, I'm a white Jewish guy but I've adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.

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[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm British and I say y'all fairly often. It just rolls off the tongue.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I’m a redneck American who says y’all, and calls people cunts a lot. We have so much to share

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

Thank you for that gift, cunt

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Happy to have more of the y'all in English English, but personally I'd like an uptake in youse.

[-] Ageroth@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

As someone who has lived both in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, y'all just sounds and feels better than youse.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Is youse a thing I'm Pennsylvania and/or Kentucky? I was thinking a la the land of the free, home of the brave (Scotland)

[-] OsakaWilson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to recreate this and my brain just won't let it happen.

[-] AGD4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Try it with Tom Hardy's cockney accent. 🙃

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's like "yawl".

[-] KrapKake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now yer talkin'!

[-] Historical_General@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It probably has some root in a region of England anyway.

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