I spent the first twelve years of my life in southeastern Kentucky. It's a lie that the accent in the more isolated areas is Elizabethan (or whatever) but it is definitely a dialect grown largely in isolation. There's a lot of odd vowel pronunciation ("bike" often comes out as "back").
After spending most of my life in Central Kentucky - which has its own accent, and that is *not* the same as a Southern accent - I still occasionally have a bit of my childhood speech patterns come through.
As a child I definitely heard "You all" used, but until I moved I only heard it as a plural.
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I spent the first twelve years of my life in southeastern Kentucky. It's a lie that the accent in the more isolated areas is Elizabethan (or whatever) but it is definitely a dialect grown largely in isolation. There's a lot of odd vowel pronunciation ("bike" often comes out as "back").
After spending most of my life in Central Kentucky - which has its own accent, and that is *not* the same as a Southern accent - I still occasionally have a bit of my childhood speech patterns come through.
As a child I definitely heard "You all" used, but until I moved I only heard it as a plural.