[lbo-talk] BHO sez y'all

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 01:22:08 PST 2008


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> > I think that in a hundred years or so English will
> > have "yall" as the second-person plural.
>
> My money is on 'youse' ...

We need something. Resurrecting "thou" for the singular seems unlikely.

In at least my part of Canada, "you guys" is common. It's not gender-specific; I once heard a bartender say to two departing customers, "You guys have a nice night, ladies."

I've heard Brits use "you lot", but I'm not sure if that's a just a plural or closer in meaning to "your crowd", and not sure how common it is.

Any others?

-- Sandy Harris, Nanjing, China



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