How y'all doing?

At a recent cocktail party in Washington D.C., a new face took the microphone to say a few opening remarks to those gathered at an international conference.  His remarks were peppered with the phrase y'all as it was his preferred way of referring to the plural you.  He was new to D.C., having recently relocated there from the southern part of the country.

I really didn't think much of it at the time but is it possible that some in the room felt differently upon hearing this grammatical variant from the South?  A blogger for Scientific American discusses this possibility and you can read about it here.

So that got me thinking: what if a speaker pronounces ask as ax?  A discussion of that can be found here.

Are you inadvertently judging others by their word choices?  Should you?