It is my understanding that the contraction y’all was considered correct American English in times past. At what point was this word removed from valid American English?
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Best Answer
It was never considered "proper" English; however, as cited above, it fills the need of the otherwise-absent second-person plural. It's very common vernacular in the South and some of the West of the United States. I'm not aware of it commonly being used outside the United States.