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Which English dialects have 2nd person plural? In North East England and Scotland, 'youse' (rhymes with loose not lose) is a colloquial form for the 2nd person plural Maybe this is where the New York form orignated from Also, 'you lot' or 'you all' can be used informally and colloquially in all UK dialects
What is the possessive of you guys? (In Philadelphia proper, youse guys’ is probably used too!) Since you guys is colloquial, if you’re writing down the possessive of the word, you should use a spelling that reflects its pronunciation
etymology - What are the origins of the regional pronoun “yinz” of . . . Probably directly deriving from Irish-Scottish original usage, but given other plurals such as youse, y'all, etc , feasibly just re-coined locally Perhaps uptake was encouraged by a relatively high proportion of non-native speakers bothered by the fact that (unlike their languages) English had dumped the 2nd person singular plural distinction
grammar - Possessive form of you guys - English Language Usage . . . @HotLicks, yes, "youse guyses" was the answer given by Tom Auger the previous time this question came up That sounds okay to me, too, but I'd spell it "guys's" The "youse" doesn't make any sense to me, grammatically, but it is still my native speaker's intuition that that "youse guys' guys's" is the right form
word choice - When should we use and and or and or? - English . . . Breaking this down: and or is as official as English gets in the sense that you can use it in extremely formal contexts There is typically a better way to say whatever is being said but it does convey a specific meaning You should use and or when both options are applicable in its place "I would like cake and or pie" means "I would like one or both of the following: cake; pie " The main
Origin of you lot and other plural forms of you Maybe it's just that youse can also be used for the ungrammatical "You is", which I normally associate with stereotypical portrayal of poorly-educated black Americans in the past (esp negro slaves on plantations)