Youse, Y'all, or You Guys?

[_Iron Man_]

How do you say it?

[Rob H]

How do I say what?

[Karl J Barnes]

I say,y'all. It;s something that I picked up living in the south(Georgia and Viriginia).

[TheLazy]

Yuleflayliclellid

Anyone who figures that out has a beer on me;) And yes, I do great friends with it, its slang.

[Wesley Dodds]

They're used differently.

*ahem*

1. All of youse base are belong to us.

2. Y'all, all of your base are belong to us.

3. You guys, all of your base are belong to us guys.

[Fenris]

Y'all. I suppose that it's because it's from the south; but also because it makes intuitive sense and flows easily.


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Or maybe that's because I'm from the south!

[Tommy]

Collectively Americans seem to have decided "you guys" is the proper plural form of "you."

(Speaking as someone who has read articles on this subject.)

[Boldido]

I grew up in the north but picked up y'all like a duck takes to water. Other regional expressions, not so much, like Coke. Its a freaking soda people. There is no such thing as an orange coke.

[Ryan K]

Y'all is one of the 2 southern sayings I've picked up since being in Texas. The other is "fixin' to". As in "I'm fixin' to go to the comic shop".

I am mocked by my northern-raised cousins at family get togethers.

[Sir Tim Drake]

I prefer "you puny humans."

[Gingold]

I use "you guys" if I use any of them. Usually, I just use "you".

[Jeff Brady]

Other. "Hey assholes!"

[morna]

I use "you guys" if I use any of them. Usually, I just use "you".

.... ditto

[K'Nort]

I think I probably usually say 'everyone.' I definitely don't use any of the options.

[Tadhg Adams]

I use "People"

[Gene M.]

I'm from Pittsburgh, so all'a yinz jagoffs need ta learn ta tawk right. Go Stillers.

[K'Nort]

I use "People"

Usually preceded by "Come on," right?

[howyadoin]

I say "fuckers".

[Boldido]

I say "fuckers".I think he meant, what do you use when your NOT in church?

[Pinnacle]

I use Y'all and You guys both pretty much equally. People that I'm around say You guys is Yankee talk but they've never corrected me on it since they know I'm a native Southerner. What I got corrected on was by my students when I taught high school because they thought "you guys" sounds sexist.

While I've never checked it out, I was told by a professor that "you all" was used in the original King James Bible as the formal form of you.

[Gilda Dent]

I use "you" for the simple plural, and "all of you" or "you all" for the super plural.

[Michael P]

2. Y'all, all of your base are belong to us.

Alla y'all's bases are belong to us.

[Bear]

They're used differently.

*ahem*

1. All of youse base are belong to us.

2. Y'all, all of your base are belong to us.

3. You guys, all of your base are belong to us guys.

This made me fall out of my chair. Thank-you Dodds for your fine sense for obscure humor. :)

[Mysterio]

I spent my fair share of time in Texas and a few years in Kentucky. Yet I refuse to say "Y'all." I prefer "you guys."

[Wesley Dodds]

Alla y'all's bases are belong to us.

D'oh, why didn't I think of that?

But, *ahem*, it should be:

Alla y'all's base are belong to us.

[Wesley Dodds]

This made me fall out of my chair. Thank-you Dodds for your fine sense for obscure humor. :)

Thanks, but I'm not sure it's that obscure -- all your base has been all your based to death. See? It's been so all your based that all your base has become the verb for when things are all your based.

One day historians will talk about how Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan were all your based to death -- greatly confusing the superintelligent chimps of the future when they pick through the fragments of our civilisation.

Finally, the wisest among their number will recall the old saying "getting to first base", and write a widely influential paper proposing that baseball was a fertility rite of the ancient Amerians.

Anyway, thanks for the good word. Now I've just got to make Solaris laugh so hard she actually does wake up her husband. (What? Was it something I said?)

[Guapo Méndez]

"ustedes".

[OzBat!]

"G'day!" or "Oi! You Lot!" will normally get me started...

[Dan Apodaca]

Poor banned poster will never get to find out what colloquial phrases we use...

[howyadoin]

Poor banned poster will never get to find out what colloquial phrases we use...He seems to have changed his handle.

[Rik Levins]

"Youse Guys".

Seriously.

Must be a leftover Jersey thing...