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I'm sure you must have heard "ya'll" in Houston?


A little bit, but not very much. That one did differ in any case: most people in Chicago I knew would say "you guys" for the 2nd-person plural, while most people in Houston would say "you", with a minority usage of "y'all".

It's mostly accents I didn't notice, though. Some wording changes, yes, but nobody in Chicago I knew had a "Chicago accent", like the Superfans on SNL, and nobody I knew in Houston had a "Texas accent". I could be missing more subtle differences.




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