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Do regional dialects in Britain have attempts to provide separate singular and plural second person pronouns?
In the US, there are various versions of this. In the south, it's" y'all, " In New York, "youse," and in the midwest, "Youuns." A few speakers retain ye, thee thou.
Is there anything like that in the UK, Crown dependencies and Overseas territories?
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I just realized that the answer to this could be a simple "yes," or "no." If your answer is "yes," In your answer, please identify the region, and the word or phrase used. Thank you!
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- Anonymous2 years ago
I think it's a matter of the individuals doing it rather than it being a regional feature. I would just say You Two or You lot etc.
- Anonymous2 years ago
I grew up in New York City a very long time ago and even then no one said "youse" except as a joke. "Y'all" started as a plural form in the South but now it's often used as a singular, so they tend to say "all y'all" to indicate plural. I've never heard anyone say "you uns," In other words, I think these forms are all less common ways of indicating "plural you" than some people like to think.
I think the most common way to indicate more than one "you" is "you guys" in the US and "you lot" in the UK.
