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Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3237/
Is there an American first person plural for “y’all”?..“We’s”?
Yes! And you’ve nailed one of the most common.
Mind you, none of the ones I’ve run into reach the degree of usage y’all does.
But, there’s we’s, we’ns, and us’ns
This is all in my local area, or in areas close enough to have visited frequently.
No idea what yankees use for dialect first person plural, but we’ns down hyuh have it figgered out right nice.
However, if you want the dialect mind fuck of all mind fucks, wait until someone needs to address a large group of mixed sub groups and breaks out “all’a y’all’ns” which is said as a single unit all’a’y’all’ns. All of you all ones. It’s like a black hole of linguistics that sucks you in, and the closer you get, the more spaghettified your brain becomes.
They ain’t nuthin much more sigogglin than suthren talkin, an if’n it’s in the hills (aka mountains), y’all gonna have ta step quick ta keep up. Shit far (fire) and save matches, y’all damn feriners done missed out on some got dayum good talkin!
To the north (still solidly east coast) I would occasionally hear all’a’you’s and allyouse for a similar purpose.
Weesa acutally’bin’ talking like JarJar okieday!
We’s typically means ‘us’ or also just we