"Yous"

[MGC1986]

E.g. Hope "yous" two have a great day.

Why do people speak like this? Fucking idiots!

[SpeakNoWords]

I would imagine it's their accent/dialect rather than a lack of understanding of English spelling/grammar.

[MGC1986]

It's still incorrect!

[SpeakNoWords]

Which version of spoken English is the correct one?

[Footle]

I think it's incorrect to criticise people for using their local dialect.

[MGC1986]

It was sarcasm.

[Skrewt]

It's colloquial. I like it - I don't use it but think it makes sense - as does "ye" for the same reason.

[rightmywrongs]

Definitely local dialect.
I say it and no one would bat an eye lid
NE Scotland,

[rightmywrongs]

This would give you the willies if it bothers you so much,
Some people and this is just going a shade too far in my opinion type "use" rather than "yous"

What are use up to...?

[treaclesoda]

It's standard dialect in N Ireland. It doesn't mean we're too thick to use 'correct' English, it's just speaking to other locals in the standard way. There is a time for formal English - workplace, presentations, essays etc, and a time for informal speech. It's no big deal.

[trevortrevorslatterfry]

Agree it is colloquial rather than "idiocy".

I love "yous"!

I think English is the poorer for not having this as an actual word. Like vosotros / ustedes in Spanish and vous in French.

So I have decided it is a word and I use it all the time. So there.

[BrianCoxReborn]

The Liverpool Youth use "use" in this way.

Where are "use" going?

Or rather....

Were r use goin.

[DramaAlpaca]

Yous/e and ye are Irish dialect, and perfectly acceptable in everyday speech.

Where I live ye is used as the plural of you.

[ouryve]

Old dialect going back a long way.

They distinguish between you singular and you plural in other European languages. That the English language has evolved not to, by certain measures of correctness, doesn't make a great deal of sense.

[AHintOfStyle]

Even worse is 'you's' - if you have to use that word then please don't make it worse by inserting a random apostrophe.

[rightmywrongs]

You's is a different kettle of fish as that would mean you is & make zero sense.

[MGC1986]

The people who I've heard use it have been local to me (London) and it's not part of the dialect here at all. I remember a couple of people using it at school and being told it's wrong.

Now that I think of it a friend of mine who's Irish uses it but that doesn't irritate me because I think of it as being part of her dialect. The example in thinking of isn't though.

[prism]

It's quite logical really- it's an effort to make up for the fact that in English the second person singular and plural pronoun are the same, which is a bit confusing. It's why people in southern states in the USA say "y'all".

[FruStefanOla]

MGC. I live in London in an area where there was (and still is) a large Irish community. Those people might have London accents, but they still use many words, or expressions, from their Irish heritage, including the word 'yous'.

[steppemum]

It is a London accent too. Very East End when I lived there.

[LemonBreeland]

I live in Scotland and I fucking hate this! there is no plural of the word you. I also hate mines, as in that's mines, that belongs to me.

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I'm afraid you sound like an uptight and intolerant plum, op.

[ICanSeeForMiles]

I can remember saying yous as a child and my mother saying 'ewes are female sheep, ICanSee'
Now, should my dc say it, my mother comes out my mouth

[ThereIsIron]

It's lazy NI - it should be yousn's

[MargotLovedTom]

Happens a lot in NE England. Along with we, pronounced 'wuh', for us:

"Do you want to come with wuh?"
"What time are yous going, like?"

Not generally a written thing though.

[MargotLovedTom]

"Uptight and intolerant plum,"