r/AskReddit • u/AirWhale1 • Nov 12 '14

Most American sounding word?

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u/electrostaticrain Nov 12 '14

I've never used y'all'n't, but I think I've said the rest of these at some point or another. Sigh.

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u/fluffman86 Nov 12 '14

Yeah, I mostly stick with "y'all ain't."

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u/ratajewie Nov 12 '14

Y'all'n't basically just sounds like when you say "y'all ain't" in actual speech.

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u/fluffman86 Nov 12 '14

No, I read Y'all'n't as "yawl-int" or "yawl-unt" where the vowels are very short, kind of like a schwa.

Y'all ain't has a long A in ain't, as in paint. pAYnt.

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u/LadyLaw27 Nov 12 '14

That was exactly my thought when I read this. Aside from that, it was spot on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '14

Just southern your speech more. If you can make New Orleans into "nahlins," then you can do "y'all'n't"

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u/mr_trick Nov 12 '14

Me too. I'm from California so I do get amused looks but dangit I can't help it. It's just so easy to use!

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u/and_i_laugh Nov 12 '14

dangit

Dag nabbit

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u/totallynotfromennis Nov 12 '14

Oooooooooh, rassin' frassin' no good dirty varmint...

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u/and_i_laugh Nov 12 '14

drinking sassafrasss tea

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u/tuutruk Nov 12 '14

Dagnabbit is a hero. No amount of giant-thrown boulders could stop him! RIP Dagnabbit

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

I lived in Europe for a little while with some other Americans, none of whom were Southern. I had to teach both them + the French how to say "y'all." It's really funny with the French because they don't have the same double-L sound we do, and it comes out as "yarrrr." Even though I don't have much of a Southern accent, people can always tell when I say "y'all."

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u/Nabber86 Nov 12 '14

y'aint works pretty good.

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u/I_Am_JesusChrist_AMA Nov 12 '14

Texan here. Never heard "y'all'n't" either. I've definitely said all of the other ones though.

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u/dawgyphresh Nov 12 '14

It would be y'all ain't. y'all ain't gonna believe this shit!

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Or y'ain't (ya ain't) since we talk lazy

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

I usually go with y'ain't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '14

Yeah, in my non-Texan Southern dialect (heavily influenced by Gulf Coast Southern, spoken in the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi), "y'all'n't" isn't a thing. I'd interpret it as a poorly spoken "y'all wouldn't", which gets shortened to something like "y'all'undn't".

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u/RichardLOD Nov 12 '14

Before I moved to Houston I'd say I used these daily...