The Collective Form of "You"

[rucky]

Poll question: The Collective Form of "You"

[Cannikin]

1. I'm from Arkansas...

Its required.

[Robb]

2. How about

"It's f-ckin' people like you...." followed by an expansive hand gesture. ;)

[wtmusic]

3. Proper form is 'Youz'

As in 'youz guys'

[bubblesby2002]

5. I must agree with you.

I spent the first few years of my life living in Ontario and that IS the correct grammatical plural of you. NOT

[Limbought]

9. This would be my cherce as well.

[Bertha Venation]

11. Archie Bunker Lives!

I've always wanted to flush a terlet.

[zbdent]

4. HOW DARE YOU FORGET PITTSBURGH'S YINZ!

That's how it's pronounced. Properly spelled, it originally was "you'ns".

[Snow]

6. It already is collective -

the non-collective is thee, thou. We Quakers have remembered this even if thee-all have forgotten.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Youse guyz, Youins, yuz

Man, youz forgot a few.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Youz on the East Coast

When I went back to Yale for my degree ceremonies, I knew we were back in the East when we stopped for dinner at a restaurant just north of NYC (after having driven from the Cleveland area) and the waitress said, "I'll be witchooze in a minute."

A Minnesota or Oregon waitress would have said, "I'll be with you guys in a minute."

In the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, the proper form is "you guys."

[Bertha Venation]

10. I married a hillbilly -- it's y'all -- drives my Left Coast sisters crazy.

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