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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "plural" you
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:52:16 GMT
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In article <54j6g4$6no@itnews.sc.intel.com>,
Sean V. Kelley <skelley@sedona.intel.com> wrote:
>Ar Fri, 18 Oct 1996 02:53:46 GMT, Scrobh Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> :
>|
>|	So far, no one has mentioned the particular variant I grew up
>|with:  you guys [irrespective of the gender of the addressees].  I 
>|didn't really become conscious of this usage until I went to camp in
>|Texas, where they unfairly accused us of saying "youse guys."  In re-
>|turn, we unfairly accused them of using "y'all" as a singular.
>
>I grew up primarily using "you guys" as well.  For possessive form
>of the plural, it is not uncommon to hear "your guys's".

	In fact, I would venture to say that this form is more common than
the one I listed earlier ("you guys's"), at least for the area I'm most
familiar with (the Upper Midwest).

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