Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> It'll be interesting to see if and when and where this
> spreads.  Another interesting dialectal fact I've noticed
> upon moving to Chicago:  a significant number of people
> here, most of whom aren't from the South, use <y'all>
> for the second person plural pronoun.  Jerry Sadock,
> the syntax professor here, informs me that <youse> is
> also fairly widespread, but <y'all> is spreading faster.
> That too does not surprise me;  there are between 75 and
> 100 million Southerners who use it.
I've been hearing "youse" with increasing frequency here in vancouver
too...