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Slang contraction for the 2nd person plural pronoun, utilized amongst the 
indigenous populations of the southern continental United States.

Origin: Often incorrectly attributed to the contraction of "you + all," the 
word actually originated from the fusing of "ya + all." The kind of fella who 
would say ya'll for the first time would not be enunciating a clean and crisp 
"you" in his daily speech. "You" wasn't in his spoken vocabulary, but "ya" was. 
Now, try to say "ya all." It is actually not easy to do as two separate words. 
To say it with a normal cadence, it already almost sounds like ya'll, but with 
the slightest stutter. "Ya all" quite naturally slips into the familiar pronoun 
we all use. Ya + all = ya'll. When you look at it that way, the placement of 
the apostrophe after the "a" makes sense. Alternately, you + all = y'all. 
However, the ya + all transition more naturally illustrates the origin of 
"ya'll." "You all" is cumbersome, although that is usually how yall is 
explained to uninitiated Yankees, whose experience with "ya" is often limited. 
"You all" just doesn't lead the the inevitable ya'll that "Ya all" does.

Imperative: "Ya'll simmer down and go one at a time."


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