Marked. Interesting...
I remember being made fun of when I was in high school for saying “I recon.” I’m originally from VA and we all spoke that way. I hear Brits say that all the time.
I never associated ‘youse’ with the Scots Irish. Until the recent,last 30 yrs, massive hispanic and Asian influx into NYC, youse was always associated with the poorer ethnic neighborhoods of NYC. I grew up with youse the same way I grew up with jeet jet, and dropping interior Rs, Noo Yawk, fowud, pattun. So I’m curious as to the Scots Irish connections. Until now the only place I could go and not be immediately identified as a New Yorker were certain sections of ethnic New Orleans.
BTTT
A “Scot’’ is a person from Scotland. “Scotch’’ is liquor.
They say “yoos” in Chicago, too.
I associate ‘youse’ with the northeast — cities, actually -— and ‘youins’ with the lower Midwest, like lower Illinois and Indiana.
‘You-all’ is south.
English at present doesn’t have a second person plural so all of these are attempts to provide one.
I still can’t figure out where the hills accent came from. I know that ethnically we are Scots-Irish but lowland Scots don’t sound anything like the Appalachian or hills speech.
On the other hand the true northeastern accent, and the Boston accent, do sound like some of the speech patterns in rural England.
People from Newfoundland sound like they just got off the boat from Ireland.
Ya’ll don’t let the bossman catch you reading this thread.
So “yall” “y’all” is slang for yous?
Songcatcher (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/
...deals with this very subject, only in musical lyrics. Beautiful folk singing and fiddle playing in this movie.
LOL Since I am a complete mix of Irish,English,Welsh,and German you can only imagine what comes out of my mouth. Y’all and youse is very common to hear here.
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