View Poll Results: what is your plural for "you" ?
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you
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you guys
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you all
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y'all
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all y'all
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youse guys
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you lot
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yous
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youse
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yinz/yuns
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3rd November 11, 09:43 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
My vocabulary is pretty weird. Most of what I say is uniquely Midwestern with a thick and ugly Wisconsin accent but Ive also been known to drop a "y'all" once in awhile too. Also, "eh" has become big in my vocab. I think the further North you live in WI, the more common "eh" becomes. I use it mainly as a rhetorical question kind of word though.
"So ya like kilts, eh? I like em too, donchya know." 
Actually I don't say Donchya know. That can stay in Minnesota where it belongs
Last edited by Meggers; 3rd November 11 at 09:50 AM.
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3rd November 11, 09:48 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
Mostly, it's "you", occasionally "you guys", though when I was in HS, in Latin class, for ease of diferentiating between singular and plural (as there IS a difference in Latin) the teacher used "y'all".
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3rd November 11, 10:10 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
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3rd November 11, 09:58 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
Coming from Glasgow originally it would have to be "yooze wans" but it's not in the list.
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3rd November 11, 10:06 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
 Originally Posted by Phil
Coming from Glasgow originally it would have to be "yooze wans" but it's not in the list.
Yes indeed some folk I grew up with used that expression or variations thereof (youze, yez, etc.). However, many who like me speak Scottish Standard English and/or Scots with noticeable Glasgow accents do not. I always use you both plural and singular.
Last edited by Peter Crowe; 4th November 11 at 05:34 AM.
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3rd November 11, 11:04 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
Well - where I lived, the plural of thee was thou - though pronounced thei and thah.
King James bible English still going strong. Yeah.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
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4th November 11, 11:04 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
 Originally Posted by Pleater
Well - where I lived, the plural of thee was thou - though pronounced thei and thah.
King James bible English still going strong. Yeah.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
Yea verily!
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3rd November 11, 06:33 AM
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I voted "y'all", when addressing a group of people directly.
When addressing a large group of people a little more indirectly, it's "all of you'ns".
--dbh
When given a choice, most people will choose.
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3rd November 11, 07:12 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
 Originally Posted by OC Richard
A friend from "Picksburg" says "yinz" for the plural.
Guilty, as charged! I usually say "you" for the plural, but when that fails to work and I don't get a proper response from the group in question, I have to resort to "yunz." Occasionally I will throw in "all y'all" (which I picked up when I was stationed in Florida) or "you'uns."
Anyone want to deal with "gumbands"? (Sorry, life-long inhabitant of the Pittsburgh area. At least we add the appropriate Scottish "h" to 'burgh!)
The Rev. William B. Henry, Jr.
"With Your Shield or On It!"
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3rd November 11, 08:19 AM
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Re: What is your plural for "you"?
Well,------- "you", of course.
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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