plural ) : ( chiefly Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , New York City , New Jersey , Philadelphia ,Delaware ,Boston , New England ,Northeastern United States , Chicago , Cincinnati , Liverpool ,Cape Breton , Ireland , Scotland , Michigan , Tyneside , Wearside , Teesside ) This one is found all over the English-speaking world, from Ireland to South Africa, to New Zealand, to New Jersey. It makes a lot of sense. How do you make something plural? Add an 's'! 7. Ye A savvy, observant and sometimes very funny look at teenage thrills and impulsiveness… [the characters'] interactions have an affectionate awkwardness that’s quirkily authentic… Christou has a great ear for the peculiar cadences of adolescent banter and sulkiness, as well as a fine awareness of the different ways in which both teenagers and adults can be needy." Evening Standard

I’ve accepted this but, in the interest of regaining some dignity, I do have a theory about its origins. New York is a city of immigrants who, like my grandparents, may have learned the English language but may have also retained some of the grammar of the home country. In English we express the plural of “you” with “you two” or “you three” or, in Katie Couric’s case, “you all.” But in Latin languages it is expressed with one word that, literally translated would be “yous” (for example: vous in French or vosotros in Spanish). As you say, modern English, unlike some other languages, has only one form of “you” for both singular and plural. (This wasn’t always the case, as we’ve written before.) It’s been suggested by some linguists that “you-all,”“you-uns” (a Pittsburgh expression) and “yous” or “youse” actually originated as attempts to differentiate plural “you” from singular “you.” Yous(e) as a plural is found mainly in (Northern) England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, northern Nova Scotia, parts of Ontario in Canada and parts of the northeastern United States (especially areas like Boston where there was historically Irish immigration) and in Mexican-American communities in the southwest. It also occurs in Scouse. Both yourselves and, rarely, yousselves (or youseselves, coordinate with the spelling youse) are found as reflexive forms.Both Rachel and Fudge are also given lines that question the capabilities of their own parents. Rachel says that her mum and dad don’t get on, and she thinks her father is having an affair because he owns two phones; she is also worried when Billie wants her to help her give birth. Meanwhile, Fudge, the cool kid in class, has his own ideas about his extended family—“twenty-six of us on Christmas Day.” They will love Billie, and they will help look after her child. At one point, he says, “If it was a boy I’d wanna call him some hench name like Aslan.” Hilarious.

The Debate, whether Religion was of uſe to Society.---A worthy member on this occaſion got up, and ſpoke thus. Ali Barouti, Leah Harvey, Shannon Tarbet and Joseph Thompson will star in Georgia Christou's debut play Yous Two, directed by Chelsea Walker and playing Downstairs 18 January - 24 February. You-uns (from you + ones) is a South Midland form most often found in uneducated speech; it is being replaced by you-all.

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How are you, nae offence, a whallopper getting a thing like that? Well, I used to open up early for him and do a fry-up, make him a mug of tea. But going with your impulses can lead to difficult choices. When it’s always been the two of you, how easy is it to get out, or to let anyone else in? Plur.) Représente un groupe de personnes dont le locuteur est exclu. « Soldats, je suis content de vous » (Bonaparte)