“Hang on, Doc!” he called. “I got mail for youse guys.” Youse guys was as far outside the bounds of ordinary… — Harry Turtledove
“Hang on, Doc!” he called. “I got mail for youse guys.”
Youse guys was as far outside the bounds of ordinary English as the Confederate y’all. A lot of languages had separate forms for second-person singular and plural. English didn’t, but kept trying to invent them.
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