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

"Yous" or (usually) "youse" is common in Liverpool and across the
Mersey in Wirral.

Richy Roberts

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From: andrew <hobbit@...>
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Sent: 14 August 1999 07:41
Subject: 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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