I've heard all of these in various parts of the US. What do YOU say? Or should that be, "what do 'y'all' say"?
What's the plural of "you"?
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in TX, its Yall
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You is correct, but I sometimes say "you guys".
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I say y'all a LOT and I have no idea where I got it from. Sometimes I also say you.
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Y'all
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New Englander - I default to "you guys"... Sometimes "you all".
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I use "you guys" and nobody seems to mind like they do with "y'all"
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I usually say "you guys."
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I grew up in the South, but live in the Northeast, so I constantly have to remind myself to say "you guys" like most people here do.
I'm very glad to know what y'all think.
I'm very glad to know what y'all think.
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You guys
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You
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spiced
I've heard all of these in various parts of the US. What do YOU say? Or should that be, "what do 'y'all' say"?
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You all.
Originally posted by
spiced
I've heard all of these in various parts of the US. What do YOU say? Or should that be, "what do 'y'all' say"?
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I say you guys or y'all or you all
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I say them all.
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From where I'm from, we say "y'all."
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Y'all or more than 5 all y'all.
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You guys
Originally posted by
spiced
I've heard all of these in various parts of the US. What do YOU say? Or should that be, "what do 'y'all' say"?
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Vous Plural of tu is vous. I hate english for that. I wish it had a formal you/a plural you like french does.
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you.
Originally posted by
spiced
I've heard all of these in various parts of the US. What do YOU say? Or should that be, "what do 'y'all' say"?
you guys.
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Plural of you is you. Sometimes I'll say "you all" or "you guys", which can also be grammatically correct.
As for "You'uns or y'uns", I think you meant "yinz"?
As for "You'uns or y'uns", I think you meant "yinz"?
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You
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you
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Thanks for the link! That's exactly what I was referring to. I had no idea about the full history of that word and I'm glad to know it. I've heard it a lot in Appalachia, and first from a huge family from West Virginia who moved in up the street when I was a kid. They said "y'uns" most of the time,; I always got the impression they were making a special effort to be clear when they said "you'uns" ; ;.
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Gone (LD29)
Plural of you is you. Sometimes I'll say "you all" or "you guys", which can also be grammatically correct.
As for "You'uns or y'uns", I think you meant "yinz"?
As for "You'uns or y'uns", I think you meant "yinz"?
From the article, for those who don't feel like clicking:
"Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones, which is probably the result of contact between Irish and English. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tu, as well as a plural form, sibh.
"The following therefore is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [ju: w?nz] > you'uns [ju: ?nz] >youns [ju?nz] > yunz [j?nz] > yinz [j?¨nz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form, there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania—which is why this pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you'uns, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns, yinz, yenz, yins or ynz."
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You, but I'll occasionally say 'you guys!'
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Depends on the group. I am from the north and live in the south, but many times it's You guy, Ladies, or folks. I have found myself saying y'all the more I live the south and I'm not really fond of it.
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same here!
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LikeSunshineDust
New Englander - I default to "you guys"... Sometimes "you all".
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Youse. J\k. People think I'm trying to be street when I say ya'll, but it's because I'm from Texas.
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I say "you guys" most of the time but I'll also say "you all" or "y'all".
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I just stick to "you."
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I use you
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