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Actually, I read an article about 8 or 9 years ago where the anthropologists were saying Southern English was much closer to the Kings English spoken in the 1700's than the northern dialects as the northern speech was diluted by people from other countries other than the British Isles. Their summations were most English immigrants who landed in Virginia spread southward through NC, SC, Georgia, ALA and Mississippi. People who landed north of Virginia tended to spread north and westward.

y'all = 1 to 3 (can be singular or plural)
all y'all = 4 or more

y'alls = possessive (again, can be singular)

all y'alls = plural possessive

Anything with 'youseguys' is yankee talk.

You'uns is Southern

Allso, if you have used the word 'yamominem' you are from the south!!!

It will be preceded by the word 'Howz' and is a question?

Dude….

All y’all Yankees don’t understand English? We all laffin’!

Kinda doubled up there? miles

Idaho is a come later state that was originally settled by gold seekers and homesteaders from all over the east. There was no shortage of southerners but the southern dialect never caught on. If you hear it, it's from a newcomer.

I don’t use y’all in the singular (at least I don’t think I do) and if I say y’all to one person I’m usually implying that person and their spouse or family or the rest of their group. Talking to one of my brothers about a family get together, I might say, “y’all come over about noon and we’ll grill out.”

My wife uses “right quick” all the time. “Let me turn off the tv right quick before we leave.” 😊

Being in the Navy or as a military contractor from ‘72-‘21 I’ve heard all kinds of interesting accents and terms. Hanging around all those “Yankees” all the time, I’m sure I’ve lost some of my accent.😁 I’ve had lots of guys ask me about where I was from and inevitably they’ve said that they would not have guessed Mississippi.

One pronunciation that seems to be common in New Yorkers is adding a distinct, or sometimes a barely perceptible “R” to the end of some words. For example, “saw” as “sawr”.

On an aside, knew three sisters, who were from Baltimore and wound up down here, always said "youse guys". An ex-boyfriend of one them referred to the three as the Baltimore Whorioles.

Y’all just confused I reckon.

Another Southern oddity refers to lights. I can get my head around "cut off the lights" but when they say "cut on the lights" it makes my head spin.

It’s more efficient to use “cut” rather than “turn”…it’s only three letters vs four.😁

Dealing with foreign flight students could be interesting. The radar altimeter has a tone that sounds when you descend through 5000’ above the ground and then again if you descend through the altitude that you have set.

If you asked a French student, “in your descent, when does the radar altimeter go off?” you would get that cocked head look that your dog sometimes gives. 🫨

After seeing that a few times I learned to ask, “when will you hear the radar altimeter tone?” 😊

Is thems the folks who manufacture doublewides?

Incorrect. It's "right quick-like". 😉

OP, you forgot about "fixin'". I'm fixin' to smoke some bbq......

You Northerners would freak out on a visit to South Louisiana, South of I-10 that is.

LOL ! Yep.

Heck, that applies those of us just a few miles above I-10. 😁

Fixin is very common in my area around Houston.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/hollywood-hates-the-south-southern-accents-edition/

Where can we hear the worst southern accent of all time? Is it Tom Hanks as the lovable but stupid Forrest Gump? Is it SNL alum Dan Akyroyd in Driving Miss Daisy? How about the mess present in Django? Often, British, Irish or Scottish actors will nail a southern accent before Hollywood even thinks of hiring a southerner (see Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind or Kelly Macdonald in No Country for Old Men).

Any way you cut it, a southern accent in a Hollywood movie is bad news. Either the accent is designed to portray stupidity, slovenliness and/or poverty (see Oh Brother Where Art Thou?) or it’s ready to spout a bunch of racism under the guise of Old South (see North & South). [1]

Hollywood does not hesitate to use the beautiful architecture and scenery of the South. Covington, Georgia has been the filming location for In the Heat of the Night, the Accountant and other award-winning performances.[2] Yet the local Georgia accent remains elusive to Hollywood executives.

The history behind a southern accent would make anyone stop short. With French boulevards heard in a Louisiana Creole accent, and British fox hunts heard in a Virginia accent, while Texan accents contain Mexican inflections, every southern accent is unique. It may be this originality that Hollywood struggles to grasp.

Moreover, accents are not unique to the American south. Rural communities on the Eastern Shore of Maryland have their own dialect, as do Pennsylvanians in Lancaster. Old timers in California speak differently than cattlemen in Idaho, and none of these American accents ever cross the screen except maybe in a podcast or two.

When given the opportunity to honor a southern man or woman, Hollywood can’t get out of dodge fast enough. For example, with Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, filming took place in Australia! Moreover, press releases talk more about Baz Luhrmann’s stars posing with Bombay Sapphire gin than the legendary southern crooner, so famous no one dares name their child Elvis again.[3]

While the South remains elusive to Hollywood, this is a strength. The true nature of the South remains out of reach of a money-making machine, less concerned with accuracy than image. So the South remains hidden. She does not reveal herself on camera. And she certainly wouldn’t think of doing so to a group that could not say “hey y’all” with any authenticity.