>>> Sure, English has a word for it: you-all, or y'all.
>
>Hey, y'all had roughly 1,000 years to come up with a differentiated
>second-person-plural. We Americans (and specifically Southerners) did
it in
>less than a tenth the time! :^)

Hmmm...I always thought "y'all" to be the second person singular,
with the second person plural being "all y'all".

Or is the difference between the "immediately adjacent plural"
and the "all-encompassing plural?"

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