to think the word is 'Little'

[Arsenic]

Two syllables, hard consonant sound in the middle?

Oh, and an for and.

I'm a member of a group on Facebook and loads of the members use de for the and wid for with. It's a bloody professional forum supposedly.

I've recently seen "Yous"

Context

"Are Yous going out later?"

Why not just YOU!!!

I also get irked by "an" "K" "ickle" "gawjus" and people using "Z" instead of "S" eg hugz, babz (babes)

ARSENIC I think this is a petty question and that you are being unreasonable.

Language evolves, whether you like it or not.

Of course it's a petty question

I refer to DS1 as Ickle Wickle Baby DS1. He's 16 and 6ft tall though and I am being ironic. I can't say I've ever used it seriously.

Soup

He rolls his eyes and pats me on the head :)

KellyElly "Better than 'Lickle', that makes my teeth itch!"

There's a (very annoying) presenter on a shopping channel who always says "lickle". Why the producers don't correct her I don't understand.

Mrsmonkeybear were they Scottish?
"Yous(z)" is perfectly normal in Scottish dialect

"Yous" is scottish, it's normal in conversation round here.

"Lil" "Lickle/ickle" and "gawjus" all make me want to scream. One reason I don't FB is I couldn't take the strain!

It depends on the sort of people you are FB friends with. none of mine are Ickle Lil Gawjus people

You don't belong to any FB groups Soup? Something always creeps in.

Or some connection distantly related to the ILs

Nope. I am antisocial :)

My ex's girlfriend (now an ex, but anyway) once called my DS "My gawjus stepson".

They had been dating about two weeks

On FB, of course. Presumably people don't actually pronounce it GAAAAAAAAW-jussss like I always read it as.

Ex mil says hospickle. And shops at The Asdas.
I hate wiv, an, gawjus, fink, lil, me baby etc
I know they are part of a person sociolect but .... not written down!!!

It's la'al here.

But FB selling still says lil , are the FB sellers invading MN?

pronounced illiterate...

pronounced ilterate...

I am also scottish I say and see a lot of wee yins, bairns and weans or wee lass (less so lad) but have noticed lil man and lady creeping in which I hate

Yous or Youz is also a North Western, and particularly Scouse term. Been hearing it since Before I started primary school, but never, ever, EVER written down.

Ah yous is a scottish thing too some of my friends will write it like that and being a bit of a pain I tend to point out there is no plural of you (not when spoken just written....correcting when spoken is not worth the time given how common it is)

Yous is common up here- but I bloody hate it!

I've got the impression from somewhere that I could care less is a shortening of like I could care less.

I might be wrong.