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Y'all come!
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Thanks, Bingley. Until someone invents or resurrects a pronoun to do the job, what was good enough for the Bard will do for me! I did think it wonderfully apt that one of the two examples of Will using this contentious construction was taken from Much Ado About Nothing. 
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Y'all come!
That sounds as if Jackie or AnnaStrophic's throwing an orgy. Of course, if it were a boat builder in Charleston, it would be "Yawl come, schooner or later!"
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Of course, if it were a boat builder in Charleston, it would be "Yawl come, schooner or later!"Yeah, but AnnaS is in Atlanta, not Atlantis! 
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what's confusing, to someone trying to logically parse the language, is why anyone would want to write:
if anyone wants to come, they are welcome.Because it is correct English, and often simpler than the constructions used to avoid the issue (particularly in long descriptive text on user interfaces where the repetitive use of the original noun is a little wearing). It sounds perfectly normal to my ears. But that is why I asked the question in the first place, because I was aware some people disliked the usage, and thought this was a good place to ask. Thanks for the feedback. I may modify my behaviour slightly Rod
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what's confusing, to someone trying to logically parse the language, is why anyone would want to write:
if anyone wants to come, they are welcome.Because it is correct English, and often simpler than the constructions used to avoid the issue (particularly in long descriptive text on user interfaces where the repetitive use of the original noun is a little wearing). It sounds perfectly normal to my ears. But that is why I asked the question in the first place, because I was aware some people disliked the usage, and thought this was a good place to ask. Thanks for the feedback. I may modify my behaviour slightly Rod
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>Because it is correct English
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>Because it is correct English
but see, that's exactly my problem: no matter how many times you repeat that, you're going up against many many more reps of "it's not correct English" that were tattooed (i.e., beat) into my head fortysome years ago. perforce, it will never sound right to me.
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but, how do y'all pronounce aunt out there in Lake Wobegon?
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