Re: The future of the English second person plural (was Re: Aquestion)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 15, 1999, 22:28 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> >"Yous" or (usually) "youse" is common in Liverpool and across the
> >Mersey in Wirral.
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> Is this just a spelling difference?
I'm not sure, but I get the impression that most of the time it's pronounced
with a voiceless fricative: /ju:s/, rather than /ju:z/, which is the form one might
expect if it were a direct result of the extension of the English plural morpheme
to the pronoun.
But, since, as I said, I have no direct experience with this, I can't really say for
sure.
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