On one single occasion I said this at work without thinking about it. I'd been working exclusively with Indian devs for months and it just slipped out.
Thankfully it was taken well.
Thankfully it was taken well.
I was using my normal “consultant voice” with some clients in Tennessee and as I started talking to them, I naturally without thinking started being less careful and throwing some “y’all’s” and southern twang came out.
I heard second hand that they thought I was mocking them. I had to explain I was born and raised in South Georgia and that was my natural voice.