Apparently the Disney animators paid a lot of attention to getting the details about New Orleans right. This was good for a chuckle:
For example, just a few weeks before “The Princess and the Frog” was scheduled to hit theaters, the filmmakers did what Musker called a “y’all pass” after learning that, despite what Hollywood would have one believe, New Orleanians use “y’all” only as a plural and never as a singular.
“We actually went back, just three weeks ago practically,” Musker said last month, “and we switched out some of our ‘y’alls’ from singular to plural, just to try and get it right.”
Good catch. But it leads to the question: who on earth would use “y’all” as a singular? It’s a contraction of “you all” which is by definition a reference to a group. Weird.
Dumb yankees
Even us dumb Yankees know that “y’all” is singular and “all y’all” is plural.
…and never confuse ‘Yankee’ with ‘Californicator’.
LOL, literally. Yankees, Californicators, they’re all carpetbaggers to me.
I’ve never actually heard anyone say “all y’all” though I hear it’s done. As a port city, and with our strange international history, New Orleans isn’t typical south, so maybe that explains it…