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  1. etymology - "youse" as a plural second person pronoun - English ...

    Dec 1, 2016 · The 'official' plural second person pronoun in English is you. There are several ways in English to manufacture plural you, one of which is youse. According to …

  2. etymology - You, you two, you people and you'se - English …

    Jan 17, 2014 · Youse, you'se, you-all, and several other forms have evolved, but none are universally accepted. "You people" is potentially derogatory and might best be avoided.

  3. etymology - What are the origins of the regional pronoun “yinz” of ...

    May 30, 2012 · Probably directly deriving from Irish-Scottish original usage, but given other plurals such as youse, y'all, etc., feasibly just re-coined locally. Perhaps uptake was encouraged by a …

  4. Alternatives to y'all? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jan 12, 2019 · We do have a Royal We.). Youse Guys is another variant... though it's like "All y'all" which is talking to y'all but more y'alls than typical.

  5. Which English dialects have 2nd person plural?

    The Brooklyn / Italian-American "youse" might be another. While the existence and usage of "y'all" has been addressed somewhat thoroughly here: What is the proper usage of "Y'all" in …

  6. Use of "ye" in present-day Ireland and specifically Dublin

    Jun 11, 2022 · I can confirm in N Ireland people often say youse and rarely say ye or yiz for the plural you - those 2 versions sound very Southern-Irish to Ulster ears.

  7. grammar - Can I contract "you is" to "you's"? - English Language ...

    Nov 21, 2022 · Is that talking about the clitic ['s] for the possessive, or a contraction of is? In this case, both are fine. "Loving you's easy." "The dog that bit you's teeth were very yellow." …

  8. Origin of "you lot" and other plural forms of "you"

    Sep 10, 2011 · Maybe it's just that youse can also be used for the ungrammatical "You is", which I normally associate with stereotypical portrayal of poorly-educated black Americans in the past …

  9. Is "yuns" a word? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Dec 26, 2022 · As mentioned in The Review: “ Yuns ” is a contraction of two words: “you ones,” as in, “You’uns come over here.” " Yuns " is plural, it should be used in the same context as …

  10. Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?

    There is a hypothesis that y'all is now emerging as a formal version of you in certain dialects. See here: "Thomas Nunnally (1994) has offered a second hypothesis for the emergence of yall as …