Any of your homes the result of a mixed marriage?

Ours is. You know. Southern boy/Western girl. It is a cultural divide that is sometimes as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon itself--an appropriate metaphor since that particular geological formation is located in the south, but is also in the west.

Yet while many distinctions of southern life have been unaccountably rejected by the western influence--cheese grits, sweet tea, even southern gospel music! Everyone in our household can agree on the benefit of preserving one of the most telling traits of a southern upbringing. If y'all are raised south of the Mason-Dixon line, y'all have access to a still functioning second person plural.

Y'all know what I mean?

Can you say it with me? Y'all. Try it again...this time making it one syllable and…