yalls
Yalls is a nonstandard, informal form used to refer to a group of people in English. It most often appears as a phonetic rendering of you all or y’all in casual speech and informal writing. In standard English, the plural second-person pronoun is you all, and the possessive forms are you all’s or y’all’s; yalls is generally considered nonstandard. Usage varies by region and community, with some speakers using y’all more frequently and others using yalls in lyrics, memes, or online posts to evoke a dialectal tone.
The term derives from the contraction you all in Southern American English and has spread through popular
In addition to its function as a pronoun, yalls occasionally appears as a stylized label or word
See also: y’all, you all, dialect, informal writing, regional varieties of English.