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Is Ye a word?

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  • #32
    magentur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭magentur


    looksee wrote: »
    Here you are using 'yere' as a version of 'ye/you are' or 'you're' but the argument being made was that 'yere' was a plural of 'your'.

    Maybe it would be a possible single word alternative to the 'your' 'you're' and associated plurals confusion, in reality it would just be adding a further word to the mix.

    Yere proposals in relation to alternatives that would provide more clarity to yere written communications are interesting. Maybe ye might consider adopting cork colloquialisms instead.


  • #33
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    My daughter was watching some faff about cake making on Netflix (Sugar Rush) and I happened to overhear a line from one of the judges which was like nails down a chalkboard..."Y'all's cake tastes sooo gooood".

    While I can accept "y'all" as a valid contraction of you all, y'all's cannot be the possessive case...pass the gin please.


  • #34
    Weltsmertz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Weltsmertz


    Yakuza wrote: »

    While I can accept "y'all" as a valid contraction of you all

    Y'all is an American colloqulism.
    Ye is what we use in these parts


  • #35
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    It's a country thing!


  • #36
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Weltsmertz wrote: »
    Y'all is an American colloqulism.
    Ye is what we use in these parts

    It was being spoken by an American on an American program, so I had no issue with that..."y'all's" ground my gears. (As would an Irish person saying y'all in a non-ironic way).


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