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?

[squoosh]

Bit harsh to hate him for that Idkick

[ouryve]

"Yous" is dialect now but used to be correct IIRC. It's one of those words that's frowned upon, but actually adds a lot of meaning to a sentence.

[MintChocAddict]

Don't start me on wur and mines!
If you're picking me up on punctuation then pick away LDR. Bovvered.
Another wee point. Imagine your child was going for a job interview and while preparing said youse/yous.
Would you be doing them a disservice by not pointing out that interviewers would be likely to judge?
They're not likely to be thinking about old dialect, rather that the candidate had a dubious grasp of English language.

[haveyougotanyleechesforthis]

scousers say yous as a collection of you people.

[NigellasDealer]

yous makes perfect grammatical sense, nothing wrong with it.

[mrsbucketxx]

Mint choc that's a valid point.

Iys sounds like the person has a poor grasp of English as you say.

[IdkickJilliansAss]

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

mint - no, I was picking on the OP. And only in a lighthearted way, as I hope you can tell from my posts in general!

I do agree it's right to tell children (or adults) how to tailor their language to the situation. But I don't get the impression TOWIE is a job interview!

[SpoonfulOfJam]

It might be commonplace in some dialects but it's a new and annoying phenomenon amongst kids and grown up morons in Birmingham. YANBU. Drives me mad

[NigellasDealer]

i find it annoying that there is no plural second person, just about every other language has this distinction and it is sadly lacking in English - and i am not a 'moron' thanks.

[LucySnoweShouldRelax]

I feel a bit sorry for people who don't have a dialect. Obviously in formal/work situations, I'm all nice and correct and Standard, but it's actually quite nice to have a 'relaxed' version of the language to talk to friends and family.

I'm sure it's ridiculous, but I'm happier when I can use ye (West of Ireland, represent), talk about sliced pans and presses and yer man and yer wan. I've used 'yizzer' for your (pl) on occasion! SUE ME.

Tell you something, I can't bring myself to use "I do be doing x", like, "I do be going shopping every Saturday". It's an anglicization of an extra present tense in Irish, but it's my dialect limit, so obviously, we all have one, but why hate on anyone else's?

[BEEwitched]

It makes me twitch, but English is my 2nd language so I've had grammar rules drilled into me since I was about 11 - I live in NI and everybody uses it so I'm used to it now and don't mind, it's just a colloquialism!

[mrsjay]

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

No i dont think so i have just said it out loud and it is mine

[mrsjay]

they're not likely to be thinking about old dialect, rather that the candidate had a dubious grasp of English language.

aye you are right but as i said before i do bit of both my children are better spoken than I am though so they would use you and not yous in context (far to many you's in this post)

[HappyAgainOneDay]

One of my late Geordie uncles used 'yous'. He gave my DH a book called Larn yersel' Geordie or something like that. It's all right if you are used to to the dialect but it's people who have not heard it before who think it's odd. I'm an RP person thanks to Mitcham Grammar Girls. I applaud my school for its forward-looking.

[HappyAgainOneDay]

Ooooh and one of my cousins talks about giving her children ' a bit carrot' meaning 'some carrot' in their dinner.

[BOFtastic]

This is interesting- I'm going to have a scoot around the blog generally to see what other things we can froth about!

[DesperatelySeekingSedatives]

I'm from the sarrf but live near Liverpool now and it is used a lot here but didn't hear it where I'm from (near London). doesn't bother me at all its just how people talk, like accents are. For some reason anyways does piss me off a bit though cant explain why. I'm not a pedantic type.

[Pumpkinpositive]

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

And "am ur", as in, "If I don't stand where mammy told me to, she won't know (where) am ur."

[Burren]

It's standard in Hiberno-English, as other people have no doubt said, though 'ye' is more usual where I am from. And quite useful in distinguishing between individuals and a group at large in casual situations.

So suggesting it is 'wrong' is in fact inaccurate, to be pedantic, OP.

[JohnCusacksWife]

Aaaargh, i hate "yous". It's used all the time in Scotland by certain types of people along with my other pet hate "I've did..." Speak properly, for God's sake!! Have never heard it south of the border though.

[stardusty5]

I agree that its dialect- Cumbrian here and very widely used.

"Yous lot ovver there" etc.

[JohnCusacksWife]

I must admit I've never really considered it dialect before. It may be but I do think, in Scotland anyway, that the use of "yous" also has, for want of a better word, class connotations.

I know people who use loads of Scots dialect words but would never dream of saying "yous". I'd say here it's seen as a bit common (sorry, cant think of any other way to put it...) in a way that dialect words certainly aren't.

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

And in newcastle. And Australia. Doesn't wind me up as much as fillum. And the Geordie use of eh heh, for yes.