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  • you

    43 34.96%
  • you guys

    12 9.76%
  • you all

    14 11.38%
  • y'all

    42 34.15%
  • all y'all

    4 3.25%
  • youse guys

    1 0.81%
  • you lot

    1 0.81%
  • yous

    0 0%
  • youse

    5 4.07%
  • yinz/yuns

    1 0.81%
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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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    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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    Re: What is your plural for "you"?

    Quote Originally Posted by MeghanWalker View Post
    Actually I don't say Donchya know. That can stay in Minnesota where it belongs
    And we thank you for that.



    Just kidding; it doesn't really bother me its just an easy phrase to make fun of.

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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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    Re: What is your plural for "you"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
    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.
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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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    Re: What is your plural for "you"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
    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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    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

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    Re: What is your plural for "you"?

    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    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!)
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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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