the term yous

[mrsbucketxx]

is just wrong.

i know this belongs in pedants but its just making me mad. I have noticed more and more on the programs i watch, such as Marv on the voice, Towie, and other southern based programs that when the person is talking to others that they say

yous instead of you, such as what do yous think. not what do you think.

its making me more than a little crazy aibu?

[RosegoldRuby]

Manx OH also uses "seen this". I used to think it was bad grammar, then realised it was just different grammar.

[cremolafoam]

Youse are all stickin out aren't ye?

[NoIdeasForUsername]

I say yous. I'm from the Isle of Man, but I've only really started saying it since I moved to the London/Essex border area. Everyone seems to say it here I think it's quite useful.

[JohnCusacksWife]

"Seen this"??...that's a whole new thread!

[WisneaMe]

Seen this today in an office and thought of this thread.

[tabulahrasa]

"weren't the Gaelic speaking populations always fairly geographically distant from the Lowland Scots?"

Yes, except...Glasgow is where the highlanders went and a lot of the central belt is now populated by people who've come out of Glasgow in the last century.

I'm in West Lothian now - the accent here is much closer to Glaswegian than an Edinburgh accent for instance.

I'm not saying that people in the central belt have different grammar to standard English because they used to speak Gaelic here traditionally, just that it's an influence, from interaction or from people moving down many generations ago, I don't know, but you can definitely hear it if you know any Gaelic.

[mymatemax]

yep an E/London, Essex fing. All my family say it.
"What yous lot doin the weekend" for example.

Its the plural of you :)

[LinghamStyle]

I yous it all the time

Normally I would only ever write it on Facebook as you's.

It always makes me think of the Spanish"Ustedes".

[JessieMcJessie]

tabularahsa weren't the Gaelic speaking populations always fairly geographically distant from the Lowland Scots? I don't believe that Gaelic was ever spoken throughout Scotland. It's more likely French influence as French was widely spoken in high society Scotland for a long time (it was Mary Queen of Scots' first language) and we have kept quite a few words, like "ashet" and "fash".

[tabulahrasa]

squoosh - I know it is in Irish, but, people speak Irish, not so much with Gaelic.




"so will haud my wheesht, to use a good bit of dialect."

Wheesht is phonetically Gaelic for silence, not that I'm after trying to make a point or anything, lol, but not dialect.

[JessieMcJessie]

JohnCusackswife , Mopsydaisy's DH says "go a pictures" not "to the pictures"- I think it's the "go a" not the use of "pictures" that she's objecting to. It's a bit like my Essex colleagues who say " am goin'shops at the weekend".

[JohnCusacksWife]

Mopsadaisy, we were brought up saying we were "going to the pictures" like your DH. But I think that's quite old fashioned now - you don't ever hear kids saying it. My kids say movies....yuck.

[JohnCusacksWife]

Perhaps you just don't associate with many "professional, educated" people?

If you knew where I worked you'd know why that was funny. but don't want to out myself so will haud my wheesht, to use a good bit of dialect.

And I'm quite sure people dont give a damn what I think. Why should they??

[SelectAUserName]

I should add it was my mum who stopped me from using it, not kungfupanda's.

[SelectAUserName]

"It was pretty common in Tyneside when I was growing up - but my mum was a bit of a stickler for 'proper' speech and I got jumped on if I used it."

Same here, and she was so successful that I don't like it now either, although I would never correct someone for using it.

[squoosh]

That is correct tabulahrasa, as in Irish.

[ChocolateSnowflakes]

I don't think I'm a pedant (anymore), and 'yous' doesn't annoy me when spoken, I barely even notice it, but it irritates the fuck out of me when written down.

[tabulahrasa]

I've heard yous in the west coast and all of the central belt (up to Stirling).

I'm originally from the west coast, in what used to be a Gaelic speaking area...my personal theory is that Scots is fairly heavily influenced by Gaelic grammar, hence the plural you (which does exist in Gaelic) and things like people being after going somewhere or the higher frequency of the before a noun - they're all Gaelic features.

[RosegoldRuby]

My OH uses it, he's Manx. Just across the water from Liverpool.
Dialect for that area plus Scots and Irish, I would think.

[Taz1212]

Yes, definitely Central Scotland. I don't like it at all and it took me quite a while of correcting DC before they switched back to "you"

[mrsbucketxx]

i know i love a bit of trashy telly, i cant help it

[Mopsadaisy]

I think using the term yous sounds totally wrong. I have a friend who says it, she also pronounces aitch (H) as haitch which makes me cringe and I struggle not to correct her. My DH asks ' Do you want to go a pictures?' Instead of 'Do you want to go to the cinema?' Sounds like baby speak...

[JessieMcJessie]

Central Scotland too (Stirling, Falkirk, Clackmannan and thereabouts).

[mrsbucketxx]

i hate axed too my cousins say it, its like my aunt never corrected them