if we say "yall" why not say "wall"?

Petition to start saying w’all ☝🏻

Well, you see, “wall” actually happens to already be a word. Real bummer I know.

Why not say will = We ill

There are several reasons. 1. Because you is the second/third person and we is a first person word. Y'all (you all) is a form of address to persons other than yourself. 2. Because it's a regional term that is not widely used outside of its region. It's from the American South, so unless you live there or used to, people will look at you funny for using that term. In the northeast we use the expression "you guys" in the same way as "y'all" Hopefully a Briton can chime in with more information about how they would address a group of people in the third person. 3. Because it's already a really common word in english. "Wall" (no apostrophe) is already an extremely common word in English. Like the walls of my house/apartment etc.

Vowels blend better I think but I don’t have the linguistics to explain it

because "we" is unambiguously plural on its own, there's not really any need to add anything to it

"It wasn't y'all, it was someone else! IT WAS THEM'LL!" (hbomberguy. "Plagiarism and Youtube," 2:59:59. 2 December 2023) /srs Because w'all is a much less applicable use case (if it even has one at all), is a more improbable pronoun to contract than "you" (which is often pronounced "yuh" in fast General American speech), and is a homophone of a common noun that already exists. "Bro" is unironically more likely to be accepted as a subject pronoun in the future than "w'all." /j Because w'all think it's ugly.

“Ya” ends in the droppable schwa while “we” ends in the less droppable /ii/.

Y’all is a contraction of “you all” to clarify that the second person is plural. “We” is already the plural first person. If you want to make a new term it should be “i’all.”

Because there’s no singular/plural contrast that needs clarifying. (There’s the “royal we”, of course, but that’s obvious by who’s speaking)

"Y'all" helps to differentiate between the singular and plural second person. "We" is the plural first person, "I" is the singular first person. Since there is no ambiguity, there is no need to say "we all". "We all" is used to put emphasis on the entire group; contracting it takes away from the emphasis.

How often are you even saying “we all?”

I’all don’t know why th’all don’t say w’all. I don’t even know why the ‘all’ is even there in ‘y’all’ because in my country we make ‘you’ work for both singular and plural second person without any confusion.

Let’s be fair, most of us don’t say y’all. It’s a specific term from the American south. Anywhere else and you’ll get funny looks. Other regions have different solutions to the same need. Where I am “youse” is fairly common. Other places simply use more words like “all of you”.

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We do, Pink Floyd sang a whole song about it.

W’all just don’t. Seriously, though, I could see this happening if English speakers wanted to distinguish between “you and I”, “some other people and I, but not you”, and “you and I and some other people”. This is what linguists call [clusivity](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity). There are many languages that make such distinctions.

“You” is generally singular, “you all” is referring to a group and is compressed to y’all. “We” is already plural. There is no need to say “we all”. Also, the word “wall” already has a meaning, not that this has stopped the English language before, but it is worth mentioning.

Because there is no need for it. “Y’all” distinguishes plural you from singular you. “We” already tells us it’s plural; there is no ambiguity to resolve.

You all has a “oo” sound which is easy to blend (though extremely shortened) because of the “a” in the next word. There is no word that could be confused with “Y’all.” We all has the “ee” sound which would be completely dropped in front of the “a” and would sound like the word “wall.”

I know this is meant as a joke but in some places we do. I’ve definitely heard “we all” pronounced this way. I forget the term for it but I actually saw a video about this the other day, contractions that are used in spoken English but never written in that contracted form