Y'all Is Not a Word

When I eventually moved to Brooklyn I was relieved to live in a place where no one tried to carry my bag at the end of the workday. The Civil War monuments I passed honored the Union rather than confederacy. My friends took it in stride true they haven't started using y'all yet but I'll keep evangelizing for this idiom that welcomes anyone who finds a home in it. It's just strange in Eastern Kentucky y'all is not a word I mean right.