Once you find yourself in an English-speaking area, that is.
Apparently now even in Britain and Australia.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20 ... aying-yall
This Topic May Be of Interest to All Y'all
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Chaika, thank you for sharing, gosh, I have been spending years of my life trying to master a normal English and now this, meet y’all. Hope it will have no future, at least in old good Britain.
I was informed on a teen's authority that "real people" didn't use that anymore, halfway between WashPo's still running pieces on the language of something other than Trump's Twitter, and now.
Tangentially, it's not a coincidence that the totesing in the WashPo piece is so conspicuously female-coded—apparently, women have been driving day-to-day-language change since before Early Modern English, and they make up more than 65% of the 10% most prolific Twitter users.
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So it's totes, not tots, and spelled that way, it is a recorded word in Urbane dictionary.
Anyway, thanks for your using it in a comment, for it caught Johan's eye too, and he commented too, adding the link to a most interesting article. Not that I found the information particularly useful to me, yet it still may help one to expand their linguistic horizons yet another inch further :)