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?

[mrsjay]

Oh i don't know maybe I will google

[mrsjay]

oh it is bidialectism apparently that sounds fancy

[Pumpkinpositive]

"Yous" is so much more compact than "all of you".

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Ooh, I like that. I could be bidilectal English-East Mids.

[IneedAwittierNickname]

I once (accidentally) upset my friends gf because I didn't say 'yous'
I said 'you will have to come round for dinner one evening soon' , meaning both of them.
But the gf (who is from Ireland) knows 'you' as a singular form, and thought she wasn't invited!

[StatisticallyChallenged]

Non-posh Scottish here and hate it!

[StatisticallyChallenged]

Non-posh Scottish here and hate it!

[MintChocAddict]

Jings crivens help ma boab tabulahrasa Maybe if the referendum goes Alex Salmond's way I'll be on here talking to youse aboot ma bairns.
My point would be that even if words like that do hark back to Old Scots or whatever the fact of the matter is that we speak English not Old Scots dialect. Therefore youse just sounds grammatically incorrect and a bit daft.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Erm ... sorry, they hark back to English, too.

It's not grammatically incorrect. We're not French yet (despite the Auld Alliance).

[mrsbucketxx]

Ineed how silly. I hope she was embarrassed when you explained.

[mrsbucketxx]

Now there's a word I love daft.

[squoosh]

mrsbucket why should she have been embarrassed?

Because she grew up in a place with a different use of the word? How shameful for her!

[MexicanSpringtime]

Yeap, I'm all in favour of dialects and local idioms, the rules were written after the language, not before. In fact some of the rules that people get so picky about such as the split infinitive and not ending a sentence with a preposition have long been recognised by linguists as having been taking from latin and artificially applied to English in the 18th century, but tell that to the pedants.

Still we all have things that annoy us in other people's use of language, I can't stand words like "utilize" and "obligate".

[IneedAwittierNickname]

She wasn't upset as in crying, (upset is possibly the wrong word) my friend told me on the phone later, and that she had reminded the gf that you is the plural here!
I've since apologised for making her think we didn't like her. And she apologised for forgetting!

[Magix]

Scottish here and I will happily say it hear it no problem . But written down it is just wrong

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Daft is such a good word.

It is a bit silly to be strict about grammar and not punctuation, though.

[IdkickJilliansAss]

Don't Scots say 'mines' as well? As in 'It's mine's'

[Bunbaker]

I don't watch TOWIE or live in the south east, and have never heard yous being used in place of you.

[squoosh]

Yes and some Scots say 'wur' instead of 'our'.

[IneedAwittierNickname]

And I agree with squoosh there was nothing to be embarrassed about. It was a misunderstanding caused by dialect,until that day I.didn't realise.yous was a 'real' word iyswim, I thought it was slang! Now I know,.and try and remember to say yous when talking to this couple :)

[LondonNinja]

It's used in east London too.

[MintChocAddict]

LRD
It doesn't matter whether it comes from Ye Olde English or Auld Scots dialect. It's 2014 and we speak English. If you look up youse/yous in the dictionary it's not there because it's not recognised in current English language.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Oh dear, 'Ye Olde' makes me wince.

I do know it's not current standard English. But not everyone speaks standard English, do they?

And you did claim your difficulty was that it was Scots, just now ...

[outtheothersidefinally]

It's a correct dialect form in some versions of English. Many dialects have retained more complex forms, which were simplified in the Standard English dialect (such as this - distinguishing between singular and plural second person pronoun, much like the Romance languages do).

[IdkickJilliansAss]

I hate a Cockney stepdad and he used to say 'Youse'