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?

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

But I learned to pronounce scone in Scotland, LRD.

[rhetorician]

Common as others have said in some dialects (irish, Scottish, Liverpool, all connected, of course). Actually a very useful grammatical distinction, especially when you need to single someone out (recalcitrant student, naughty child, someone you have the hots for). I rather like it.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

See, now I'm sitting here trying to say 'scone' as I imagine Billy Connolly says it. Thank god I'm on my own.

[Pumpkinpositive]

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

The devil take my soul then because I am sitting here trying to fathom any other way you one could possibly pronounce it.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Some people say it scone to rhyme with phone. I don't know of anyone under the age of 100 who rhymes gone with phone, but I'm willing to learn.

[TwixTime]

So funny to see yous all get your knickers in a twist (would never normally dream of writing yous but certainly say it!)

Other words I'd say but not write while I'm thinking about it

Whadgesay?
How?
How no?
Aye

Yes I'm Scottish but work with a range of nationalities and don't struggle to be understood. Perhaps I know when to scale back, although I'm very proud of my dialect and a bit when people claim to associate it with a certain type of person? What does that even mean?!

[WisneaMe]

I say yous but don't write/type it I hope ,the English language would be very boring without dialect.

I also say our like oour.

People shouldn't generalise and say only certain people talk like that it is snobby and seems judgy,I can imagine you mean common mostpeople.
I can speak properly and I can and do talk scottish, just because a English dictionary doesn't have the words in it doesn't mean they are not words.

[tabulahrasa]

An English dictionary doesn't have loads of useful words, birl, shoogle, scunnered, outwith...there's no English one word equivalent for any of them.

I use them all, plus yous and I know what disambiguate means.

I can and do speak standard English in formal circumstances, I write in English...but I speak Scottish, I change registers completely in different circumstances.

Spoken language in most areas is much richer and varied than standard English, I don't think it's a bad thing.

[LtGreggs]

I was brought up in England (and don't say "yous") but now living in Scotland with DC born here, now in primary school, and they do say "yous" - both for "you plural" and for "yours".

I have a question. DC also say "mines", as in "that's mines". Is this also a Scottish thing, or just a tic that they've developed??

[traininthedistance]

In Liverpool it's spelt "youse" - as in "are youse all right there, la?" and is normally used as a plural second person, though not always (sometimes for emphasis). I didn't know it was used in NI too.

[demisemiquaver]

yabu....in other languages there is a plural you[eg vous in french]...which is very sensible....god knows why'proper'english hasn't one

[Weegiemum]

I can be a pedant about a lot of things (apostrophes, dropping the letter T - when your surname has 3xT in it!), but after almost 8 years living in Glasgow (I'm from the East Coast of Scotland and have also lived in the Hebrides, both places this isn't used) I've given up on stopping my dc saying "yous" or referring yo everyone as "you guys". Sometimes you have to roll with the Kultchur!

[CremeEggThief]

Well, looks like it's yoused all over Britain and Ireland!

[Weegiemum]

Humped!

Trachled, scunnered, wabbit, dreich, shoogle, wan, gie, peely-wally, steamin' etc etc etc .........

[JessieMcJessie]

I grew up in Scotland, surrounded by "youse" and "mines" users all day every day. However I do not use either phrase because I was brought up to talk properly. So were many of my friends, regardless of wealth or social status.

LTGreggs you owe it to your chdren's futures not to let this slide.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

Yet another one to say it's very common in NI. Our farmers tend to call female sheep yos.

[Sceptimum]

In the Irish language there's a second person plural (as in you plural, and yours plural) which is part of the reason why ye/youse is so common in Irish speech today.

[JapaneseMargaret]

It's not a word I use, but I think it is a definite failing of the English language that there isn't a plural version of 'you' as there is in other languages.

Yous/e is a common-enough word within some groups in NZ.

I love ye. But as non-Irish, I can't carry it off.

[kungfupannda]

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.

'Wor' was in common use as well. My grandad wasn't particularly broad Geordie, and lost a lot of his dialect while serving as a merchant navy captain - but he still sometimes used it.

[WeileWeileWaile]

I say it too - from Dublin originally. But because I'm common, I say yis

I know it's wrong - when we were conjugating verbs in school our teachers always had it in this order: Me, you, him/her, us, you all and them - they never said yous, but it's so ingrained in my speech patterns that I use it all the time.

I couldn't say y'all as a contraction though - don't know why, it just sounds awful to my ear. I've lived in the UK for over 10 years now and I regularly use amn't and have never had either a funny look or people misunderstanding my intent - it might not be used but it is understood.

[JohnCusacksWife]

So, whether you're snobby or not, I do think you're wrong about who's using it

Perhaps I am but I stand by the fact that I have hardly ever heard a professional, educated person use "yous" in either formal or informal conversation.

[PrimalLass]

I'm a non-posh Scot but don't say it either. Is it a west coast thing maybe?