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People in some parts of the UK say "yous" for second person plural. So it isn't quite gone.
by forgotusername6 2y ago
People in some parts of the UK say "yous" for second person plural. So it isn't quite gone.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoWe also have that in some parts of Canada, rural & northern Ontario especially.
- zdragnar 2y agoRural Wisconsin too, though mostly the older generations.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoIt's very much perceived as a vaguely "redneck" or "hoser" way of speaking here. Another similar dialect isogloss-ish that often goes with that is dropping the past-tense "I saw" and replacing it with the past-participle "I seen". Or, alternatively, another way of putting it is that it's dropping the "have" in "I've seen" Middle class parents and teachers definitely scolded kids for speaking this way when I was growing up. Was seen as lower class.
- shagie 2y agoThe Dictionary of American Regional English (I first heard about it in A Way With Words - https://waywordradio.org/johnny-on-the-spot/ https://waywordradio.org/johnny-on-the-spot/ ) https://www.daredictionary.com/search?q=yous&searchBtn= https://www.daredictionary.com/search?q=yous&searchBtn= While I don't have a subscription to it (I haven't justified $50/year for that to myself) you will see that "youse" comes up with an "explore more" for Great Lakes, North Midland, and Northeast and "youse-all" shows up as Middle Atlantic.
- cameronh90 2y agoWe do on the West Coast of Scotland at least.
- axpvms 2y agoWe also say "youse" in Australia (or at least my region of Australia, it's definitely informal though) Since moving overseas and studying other languages (Slavic and Baltic languages) I think it's definitely something needed in English. I think I still use youse, I never note it. It's just something that's so naturally useful it wouldn't occur to me that I'm saying something weird or forced.