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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "plural" you
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:56:05 GMT
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In article <54cjfc$lld@news.emi.com>,
Ed Book <edbook@alpha.clarion-net.com> wrote:
>In the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, 'yunz' (from 'you ones' ?) is common 
>for the plural 'you', and 'yunzez' is common for the plural possessive 
>'your.' I have even heard people use 'yunzezez' for the plural possessive.
>
>I presume most of these variant plural forms have corresponding possessive 
>forms?

	I've can personally confirm the use of "y'all's" and "you guys'"
(pronounced [ju'gaIz@z]).  I'm not sure what the possessive of "youse" is.
I don't recall ever hearing "youse's", which leads me to conjecture that
the possessive form is homophonous with the non-possessive, but I really
don't know.  Can any of youse out dere help us wit dis?

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