Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 2000/12

From: A4ACHESON@-----.com
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Apostrophes
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:55:07 -0500

In a message dated 7/12/00 10:49:48 am, Anthony T wrote:

<<Most of my relatives are in England, some Ireland, and they often say
"you's"
when they mean "you" (plural). So is that spelled "yous", "youse", or
"you's"? Or is it spelled, or only spoken? Is that an Irish thing or an
English thing?

--Anthony T>>

'Youse' is Anglo-Irish and probably an Irish idiom in translation.
Irish speakers are used to distinguishing the second person singular pronoun
from the plural, as once English distinguished between 'thou' singular and
'you' plural.
it is very common here in speech. I have seldom seen it written, but you will
find it in Samuel Beckett's 'Murphy', spelt 'youze.'
I would spell it 'yous', a simple plural.
Arthur Acheson
Belfast
N Ireland

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