[Red Boots]

.A little further south, the plural of you is "y'all", as in "you all" or "all of you".My mother-in-law used to say "you people". She was from Oklahoma.

It's intersting that English doesn't have a formal, plural, present tense form of you, other than just "you".

We have they or them for describing groups of people in a general sense; but no way to address groups of people personally. Hence all the forms of "you guys; you all, you people, and youse".

This is real language development, as opposed to a lot of slang terms, which people like to claim are language development, but are really just popular usages which will soon fade.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Hence all the forms of "you guys; you all, you people, and youse".

In Alabama the plural of "y'all" is "all y'all."

[macmedic892]

How about this one?

Monies as a plural of money.

It's another thing I hadn't seen until moving from Northern Illinois to the New Orleans area when I was 11. Up north, I'd been taught that money was both the singular and plural.

Down south, money and monies are used interchangably. It even earned me a detention, when I said in class that the letter being sent home was wrong. It said, in reference to the annual chocolate sale: "Please turn in all monies you collect to the school office." I challenged the teacher, who sent me to the office, where the note originated--punting the problem instead of dealing with it. Turns out, the first person I complained to was the person responsible, who thought they were interchangable. I also didn't know when to quit, and earned the detention for insubordination.