[kavok]

Y’all is a pretty useful word. Is using you’re or they’ll tacky as well? It might be that you have a subconscious cultural bias against the word.

[mattmanser]

Outside a certain community of Americans, it's an incredibly tacky word that really grates whenever I read it.

Why anyone think it's the slightest bit professional to use it in official communications is mind boggling. It was sort of trendy for a little bit on Reddit with a certain type of abrasive and annoying American, but thankfully it seems to becoming uncool again.

It is also an extremely imperialistic word. Americans use it, it feels as if it only refers to Americans, and Google is only listening to Americans.

[kavok]

It isn't only used in America, but I would agree that it is predominantly known for that. Usage of the word appears to be increasing. It fulfills a role in the English language that no other word seems to hit as easily. It'd be nice if the word were more publicly acceptable. I didn't grow up in the south but always found the word to be useful.

[Angostura]

Or they specifically chose the word to try and achieve a folksy, informal friendliness that rubbed some people up the wrong way, blud.

[vog]

> It might be that you have a subconscious cultural bias against the word.

Poe's law is very strong here.