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]

Oh yes, I say fillum too. Have never heard of 'eh heh' for yes but may try and adopt it to annoy people.

[Pumpkinpositive]

It's used all the time in Scotland by certain types of people

Yes, by the multi-lingual among us, who are used to disambiguating the second person singular versus plural as per most sensible languages.

[CaptainSinker]

Oh FFS. Can't believe all the snobbery coming out here. It is useful word, and is standard dialect. Wouldn't the world be boring if we all spoke the same?

I am happy to use "youse" in informal work situations, but like most people can switch register and would somehow magically know not to say "De youse cunts wannae go up the Sav wi me the night?" at an interview..

[Pumpkinpositive]

"I've did" on the other hand, I will give you. But it's still a pleasant variation on the "I done/I seen" theme in my part of the woods.

[Ohwhatfuckeryisthis]

Tbf Squoosh, it was a particularly fecking annoying Geordie workmate, who would repeat it ad bloody infinitum. I used to feel like screaming "just bloody say yes!"

[treaclesoda]

every time I read a thread about language and I see someone say 'oh, in Scotland we say...' I'm all inwardly excited going 'ooh, we say that too', in Northern Ireland. Still, I suppose they call our dialect Ulster Scots for a reason

[treaclesoda]

and yes, we say yous for the plural of you, yin for one, wur for our, and heaps of other Scottish-isms

[JohnCusacksWife]

Pumpkin, if you're in Scotland you'll know exactly the type of people who habitually use "yous". And I bet 99% of them wouldn't know what disambiguate means.....

And that's not snobby - it's just a fact.

[JohnCusacksWife]

Well, ok, maybe it is a bit snobby but it's based on experience.

[Strandy]

YANBU

This is a common term in Ireland as CailinDana says, particularly as part of the strong Dublin accent. It is AWFUL and a pet hate of mine, and I am from Dublin!

It's so annoying! Didn't realise it ever was used outside Dublin TBH

[maddening]

it's very much part of speech in Liverpool to - so several regions use it - so being that it is part of the rich tapestry of the spoken English language yabu - I love the localisms that have grown over a long time.

[Taz1212]

I can't stand it. DC were starting to pick it up (Central Scotland, commonly used here) and I kept shrieking to them, "There's no such word as 'yous'!" To be balanced, I was raised in America and around the same time was also shrieking at DS, "There's no such word as 'ain't'!"

[AmIthatWintry]

mrsjay I don't say yous, the people I know/knew who would say it would also say "dinnae ken" and "doon the toon", etc, so I would say local dialect.

But then according to another thread. I'm apparently established middle class. Maybe that's why I don't say it

[TheCraicDealer]

I say this all the time in casual conversation. However, I never fully commit and use "yousins", which is also common in NI. Mostly because when I was in form 1 our Latin teacher held up a baseball bat and said if he ever heard any of his pupils saying it he'd beat us. I think he was joking.

[JohnCusacksWife]

HumpedZebra, ok my comment was bit tongue in cheek. But if you are from Scotland you will know very well that "yous" is not often used by the middle/upper echelons of society, is it? To pretend otherwise is just daft. Doesn't make me a snob to point that out - just a realist.

[Pumpkinpositive]

Pumpkin, if you're in Scotland you'll know exactly the type of people who habitually use "yous". And I bet 99% of them wouldn't know what disambiguate means

I am in Scotland, and I do keep company with habitual users of the words "yous". Many of my friends/colleagues have degrees/masters and work in "professional" fields.

...and use "yous" conversationally. Not suggesting they'd rattle it off during a PowerPoint presentation or job interview but it makes fairly frequent forays into casual, everyday conversation among the higher echelons of the society in wot I move.

[sarahquilt]

It's not even a millionth as annoying as 'off of' which a lot of people seem to believe is correct. It sends shivers down my spine.

[threepiecesuite]

I teach in Liverpool and as much as I emphasise that 'yous' is a dialect and not to be written down, it is a handy way of explaing the tu/vous rule in French .

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Isn't this the point, though?

That words like 'yous' have a class connotation these days, which is a bit shitty and something we should probably think about rather than accepting?

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

This is the conversation that makes me glad to live in the US South. We all say y'all, no class or education distinctions at all.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

But you do rhyme scone with gone. Like a heathen.

(No, I have no serious opinion on how to say that word)