What is your plural for "you"?

[Meggers]

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

[kc8ufv]

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".

[J_Mimbs]

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.

[Phil]

Coming from Glasgow originally it would have to be "yooze wans" but it's not in the list.

[Peter Crowe]

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.

[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:

[Dale-of-Cedars]

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!

[piperdbh]

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".

[FatherWilliam57]

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!)

[Jock Scot]

Well,------- "you", of course.