• glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    23 hours ago

    Just say partner. It’s a better description of what a marriage should be AND it’s gender neutral

    • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      16 hours ago

      Always sounded weird and corporate to me. Easiest to just ask what your SO would prefer to be called and not worry about what people might think when you say it

      • SGforce@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        Is there an American first person plural for “y’all”?..“We’s”?

        • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          19 hours ago

          Yes! And you’ve nailed one of the most common.

          Mind you, none of the ones I’ve run into reach the degree of usage y’all does.

          But, there’s we’s, we’ns, and us’ns

          This is all in my local area, or in areas close enough to have visited frequently.

          No idea what yankees use for dialect first person plural, but we’ns down hyuh have it figgered out right nice.

          However, if you want the dialect mind fuck of all mind fucks, wait until someone needs to address a large group of mixed sub groups and breaks out “all’a y’all’ns” which is said as a single unit all’a’y’all’ns. All of you all ones. It’s like a black hole of linguistics that sucks you in, and the closer you get, the more spaghettified your brain becomes.

          They ain’t nuthin much more sigogglin than suthren talkin, an if’n it’s in the hills (aka mountains), y’all gonna have ta step quick ta keep up. Shit far (fire) and save matches, y’all damn feriners done missed out on some got dayum good talkin!