How wonderful, in twenty four hours I have gone from
the assumption that "yous/e" was a Cumbrian term, to
the knowledge that its used all across the English
speaking world, even Australia.
Thanks to all, although I'm not too sure about the
sheep joke, do I need to feel offended in any way?
Jim
--- Bill East <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> > >I grew up in Cumbria where it was common usage to
> > >address a group as "yous", for example when
> asking the
> > >health of more than one person, one could ask
> "how are
> > >yous?".
> I can observe that the usage of "yous" as a plural
> is also widespread
> in Australian speech of an informal kind. One
> hesitates to suggest it
> was Cumbrian immigrants who introduced this
> usage...certainly
> Australians don't count sheep in the Cumbrian
> fashion!
>
> Yous are confusing youse and ewes.
>
> Oriens.
>
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