I've always used noncontracted "you all."
In DC once I had someone get really mad at me for refering to her group of women's rights activists as "you guys." Talk about oversensitive.
--- Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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