Re: The future of the English second person plural (was Re: A question)

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Tom Wier wrote:

> I find it highly unlikely that English would bother to borrow a second person
> plural pronoun when there are tens of millions of English speakers already using
> one.  I'm not just talking about <y'all> (which I use):  <you guys> is quickly
> becoming the commonly accepted plural in areas outside the southern United
> States.  There are probably a couple hundred thousand English speakers using
> forms like <you'uns>, both in the US and, I hear, in Britain.
>
You left out <yous>, which is not uncommon in speech that I hear.
Sometimes when I'm not careful, I use it myself.
>
- andrew.
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