"Yous"

[MGC1986]

E.g. Hope "yous" two have a great day.

Why do people speak like this? Fucking idiots!

I would imagine it's their accent/dialect rather than a lack of understanding of English spelling/grammar.

It's still incorrect!

Which version of spoken English is the correct one?

I think it's incorrect to criticise people for using their local dialect.

It was sarcasm.

It's colloquial. I like it - I don't use it but think it makes sense - as does "ye" for the same reason.

Definitely local dialect.
I say it and no one would bat an eye lid
NE Scotland,

This would give you the willies if it bothers you so much,
Some people and this is just going a shade too far in my opinion type "use" rather than "yous"

What are use up to...?

It's standard dialect in N Ireland. It doesn't mean we're too thick to use 'correct' English, it's just speaking to other locals in the standard way. There is a time for formal English - workplace, presentations, essays etc, and a time for informal speech. It's no big deal.

Agree it is colloquial rather than "idiocy".

I love "yous"!

I think English is the poorer for not having this as an actual word. Like vosotros / ustedes in Spanish and vous in French.

So I have decided it is a word and I use it all the time. So there.

The Liverpool Youth use "use" in this way.

Where are "use" going?

Or rather....

Were r use goin.

Yous/e and ye are Irish dialect, and perfectly acceptable in everyday speech.

Where I live ye is used as the plural of you.

Old dialect going back a long way.

They distinguish between you singular and you plural in other European languages. That the English language has evolved not to, by certain measures of correctness, doesn't make a great deal of sense.

Even worse is 'you's' - if you have to use that word then please don't make it worse by inserting a random apostrophe.

You's is a different kettle of fish as that would mean you is & make zero sense.

The people who I've heard use it have been local to me (London) and it's not part of the dialect here at all. I remember a couple of people using it at school and being told it's wrong.

Now that I think of it a friend of mine who's Irish uses it but that doesn't irritate me because I think of it as being part of her dialect. The example in thinking of isn't though.

It's quite logical really- it's an effort to make up for the fact that in English the second person singular and plural pronoun are the same, which is a bit confusing. It's why people in southern states in the USA say "y'all".

MGC. I live in London in an area where there was (and still is) a large Irish community. Those people might have London accents, but they still use many words, or expressions, from their Irish heritage, including the word 'yous'.

It is a London accent too. Very East End when I lived there.

I live in Scotland and I fucking hate this! there is no plural of the word you. I also hate mines, as in that's mines, that belongs to me.

I'm afraid you sound like an uptight and intolerant plum, op.

I can remember saying yous as a child and my mother saying 'ewes are female sheep, ICanSee'
Now, should my dc say it, my mother comes out my mouth

It's lazy NI - it should be yousn's

Happens a lot in NE England. Along with we, pronounced 'wuh', for us:

"Do you want to come with wuh?"
"What time are yous going, like?"

Not generally a written thing though.

"Uptight and intolerant plum,"