Yous / Ye / Yizzers

fatknacker

We need a plural for ''You'', but what should it be?

Mint Sauce

You.

Plural is the same as the singular.

Frosty McSnowballs

Yizzall!

aaabbbb

You all

wazky

Anything but yizzers.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

All of you

Muise...

sibh

I say 'ye' because I'm from the West. Elsewhere it's yous or yis.

Amirani

You.

kneemos

All a yis.

greedygoblin

Yizzers

Youghal

kneemos

Every last motherfcuking one of you.

fatknacker

Ye

For got to add 'y'awwwll' (lol)

Surveyor11

I still use ye

Mahogany Gaspipe

kneemos wrote: »

Every last motherfcuking one of you.

Foulmouthed and grammatically correct. Why wouldn't you hand over your wallet?

sparesandwich

i use them all, it depends on how fruity I'm feeling.

Muise...

Surveyor11 wrote: »

I still use ye

you yous ye?

Miss Lockhart

Yizzers

Almost everyone I know says ye. My students say yizzers though.

IM0

Ye

greedygoblin wrote: »

Youghal

I was thinking more yawn tbh

bumper234

Errrrbody

as in


Errrrbody in the club get sexy

poundapunnet

Yizzers

Mint Sauce wrote: »

You.

Plural is the same as the singular.

Yes but it's confusing and unusual (see: French, Spanish, Irish, Italian, I assume German).

"Ye" works well but it doesn't really travel. Americans seem to just say "You two/you guys" but the effort of that extra word like, blech

danniemcq

Ye

yous, although maybe its a Donegal thing!

greedygoblin

Yizzers

IM0 wrote: »

I was thinking more yawn tbh

It was only in jest IMO, though it wasn't very good admittedly

Youghal's a lovely spot.

BNMC

Ewes.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Pronoun plural = you.

How do you propose handling the possessive form. Your singular. Your plural.
Yeor, yezzersis?

Muise...

BNMC wrote: »

Ewes.

where I'm from, we pronounce 'ewes' as 'yose'.

Bog Standard User

ewe???

tayto lover

Ye

Youse. All along the border.

Legs.Eleven

Ye

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Yizzall!

This and yous and yiz.

smcgiff

Yizzers

tayto lover wrote: »

Youse. All along the border.

Youse is special

Skill Magill

Its yizzer not yizzers
Its already plural
Re-pole!!!!

Dynamo Roller

Yizzers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinzer

biko

All y'all

Lucena

Yizzers

poundapunnet wrote: »

Yes but it's confusing and unusual (see: French, Spanish, Irish, Italian, I assume German).

"Ye" works well but it doesn't really travel. Americans seem to just say "You two/you guys" but the effort of that extra word like, blech

French is a little better than English. You say 'tu' to one person, 'vous' to several.

However, the problem is when you address one person that you don't know very well, is a lot older or is higher up the pecking order than you, you have to say 'vous' to them.

German is similar to French, there's 'du' for one person and 'ihr' for several. Unfortunately the polite form for adressing one person is 'Sie' which sounds exactly the same as 'sie', meaning they.

Irish is probably your best bet.


Otherwise in English, I use 'ye' as the plural, and 'yeer' as the possessive plural e.g. "Will ye get yeer feckin' car outta my drive".

Muise...

Lucena wrote: »

German is similar to French, there's 'du' for one person and 'ihr' for several. Unfortunately the polite form for adressing one person is 'Sie' which sounds exactly the same as 'sie', meaning they.



Otherwise in English, I use 'ye' as the plural, and 'yeer' as the possessive plural e.g. "Will ye get yeer feckin' car outta my drive".

'sie' also means 'she' in German, and similarly, 'lei' or 'she' in Italian is also used as the polite form of you.

ye, yeer, yeerselves, are never ever formal here though.

signostic

thous

Herb Powell

Yizzers

Ye.

Anything else sounds/feels wrong.

fatknacker

Ye

Mint Sauce wrote: »

You.

Plural is the same as the singular.

It is, yes. So hence the thread.

Alun

"You". Not confusing at all if you take the context into account.

Mars Bar

Yizzers

I remember hearing yizzer for the first time when I moved to Dublin. "Get yizzer bags and come back to me" was the phrase IIRC. I also remember hearing "yizzerselves". WTF like?!

It is a complete abomination of a word.

JuliusCaesar

Ye

Mars Bar wrote: »

I remember hearing yizzer for the first time when I moved to Dublin. "Get yizzer bags and come back to me" was the phrase IIRC. I also remember hearing "yizzerselves". WTF like?!

It is a complete abomination of a word.

I've never heard that, and I'm a Dub.

I'm in favour of 'Yous'. Just add an 's' like most other plurals. Easy for foreigners too

Johro

fatknacker wrote: »

For got to add 'y'awwwll' (lol)

You mean ''all y'all''.

ElvisChrist6

Ye

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

I've never heard that, and I'm a Dub.

I'm in favour of 'Yous'. Just add an 's' like most other plurals. Easy for foreigners too

It's pretty common where I'm from in Dublin

awec

Ye

"Ye" = one person, except if you're from the country where for some weird reason "ye" transforms to plural. Sounds completely wrong to me.

Miss Lockhart

Yizzers

awec wrote: »

"Ye" = one person, except if you're from the country where for some weird reason "ye" transforms to plural. Sounds completely wrong to me.

I'm from Dublin and everyone round here uses ye as plural.

awec

Ye

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

I'm from Dublin and everyone round here uses ye as plural.

"Yous" or "yous'uns" here (though I'm obviously not from Dublin).

"Ye" seems to be pronounced "yeeeeee" too (I can barely pronounce it mid sentence if I am honest), rather than "yes" without the s.

Sigourney

Something else (clarify)

'Yiz'd want to watch yizzer handbags on this bus.'

tayto lover

Ye

Sigourney wrote: »

'Yiz'd want to watch yizzer handbags on this bus.'

Dundalk?

Femme_Fatale

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

I'm from Dublin and everyone round here uses ye as plural.

Whaaaa? I thought it was 100% yous/yiz in Dublin.

SeanW

Yizzers

Ye, FTW!

Vita nova

Yizzers

awec wrote: »

"Ye" = one person, except if you're from the country where for some weird reason "ye" transforms to plural. Sounds completely wrong to me.

No.
Up north, ye tends to be used in the singular (often in a religious context) but I've also heard it used in the plural. Down south, it's almost exclusively used in the plural.

In Early Modern English, ye functioned as both an informal plural and formal singular second-person nominative pronoun. "Ye" is still commonly used as an informal plural in Hiberno‐English. [link]

KevinK

Yizzers

I am from the west of Ireland and always used ye for the plural of you. It was only at the age of 21 and living in the UK that I realized this was not a widely used English term.

Everybody at home uses "ye" and I am pretty sure we even learned it in school. However everybody in my family seemed to realize it was slang and not correct use of English. I had absolutely no idea, despite living in Dublin for 3 years and being of reasonable intelligence.

To be honest the loss of the word kind of shocked me, I still use it at home but it bothers me to write a text message or e-mail, inviting people somewhere and have to clarify that the recipient doesn't have to come alone, as that is what "Can you come?", means to me.

Now I read this thread and realize that my ignorance was greater than I thought, for the first time I am learning that ye is a term confined to the west of Ireland and not a national thing. Wow. We had a kid from Dublin in our class for a year around age 8, he said yous, we just thought he was an idiot..