Thursday, February 09, 2006

Yous

Yous: a Northern English dialect idiom for the second person plural - :)

c.f. North American, "y'all"

Worthy of incorporation into standard English?
Posted by Marc Lloyd at 4:07 pm

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Certainly not. It might lead to the horrific practice of pluralisation of almost any term simply by the addition of the letter s. If distinction needs to be made, I suggest a return to the use of 'thou' for the singular, leaving 'you' to refer unambiguously to the plural.

4:56 pm
Anonymous said...

Apparently, this awful term is widespread. Not only the north, Liverpool and Northern Ireland, but Sydney too! Although possibly only the remedial Greek class at Moore College. Which says it all, I think.

3:04 pm
Anonymous said...

Ros, in what way are you distinguishing Liverpool from "the north"?

4:56 pm
Anonymous said...

Fair point. Although I think there is probably a specific Liverpool dialect which may be distinguished from other northern dialects. Perhaps we could even call it 'scouse'.

7:22 pm
Anonymous said...

By the way, Matthew, I was hoping you'd give the two-paragraph summary of your dissertation on your blog for those of us who can't just drop everything...

7:24 pm
Anonymous said...

But Ros, that requires thought and work. The point of blogging is to witter aimlessly for a bit about nothing in particular. Perhaps it should be called blagging?

8:34 pm
Anonymous said...

Oh well. I've given into the pressure and started blogging too. Shameful. Anyway, there's not much to look at yet, but you'll find it at www.ihaveaquestion.blog.co.uk. Comments welcome!

9:20 pm
Marc Lloyd said...

I feel I spend most of my time blagging but that I'm badly neglecting blogging.

Ros, I hope the end of your squatting wont mean that Matthew wont bother to read my vital musings nor that you'll stop correcting my spelling, punctuation and grammar?

"I Have A Question" is very pretty, by the way. And the "conversational theology" tag is just right.

9:32 pm
Anonymous said...

Hmmm...I like the use of "y'all". very "Gone with the Wind"...

4:47 pm

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