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Some people complain about the weird contractions that English can construct, but at some point, you just have to accept that that's the kind of language it's.

It's basically what agglutinative languages do, no?

y'all'd've: y=second person, all=plural, d=subjunctive, ve=posessive

Fun to see stuff like this pop up where it usually doesn't.

Never heard anyone pronounce the v in that one, it's always Y'all'd'a, as distinguished from y'all'odda (you all ought to). Similarly we have y'ontu? (do you want to?). Jeff Foxworthy has a bunch of these examples

I'm a very formal hick

Widjadidja?

I use something similar with y’all’re (= you all are).

Not to leave out Younta? (you want to?). I've never seen anyone try to punctuate that one though

I believe for me that’s Y’all’da - you all woulda.

"woulda" is just rewriting "would've" to match the speech pattern.

Keep working on this we’re getting really close to an American yodel.

The functional equivalent of yodeling is 'hollerin', which old timers in the mountains used to do every morning