2012年5月30日 · A common informal word used in southwestern Pennsylvania and the forefront example of what is commonly known as "Pittsburghese" is the word yinz, pronounced /jɪnz/ in IPA. Alternatively it is less commonly used in long form, youins , pronounced /ju.ɪnz/.

2022年12月26日 · Since the second half of the 20th cent. the α. forms (especially yinz, yunz) have come to be considered as a defining characteristic of the speech of the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Funnily, the first written attestations of the two forms of the term you-uns are in citations talking about how people have heard about the term: α.

2018年1月25日 · Apart from the dialect form used in the Southern US, "y'all," has English ever had a plural "you"? If not, how does English get around using this form?

Taken from Wikipedia:. y'all, or you all - southern United States and African American Vernacular English. you guys - U.S., particularly in the Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast; Canada, Australia.

2016年9月23日 · In various regional varieties of English, plural second-person pronouns have developed, such as y'all, yinz, youse, you guys, you lot. But these are not standard formal English, and so have no standard, formalized inflections.

2019年1月14日 · The proper New York spelling is Youse. Wikipedia lists this variation as used in NYC and Chicago. In formal English, the second person plural (speaking to more than one person) is formally "you" (other European Languages have a formal You, which is usually the same word as the second person plural used to address a singular, but because the word …

2017年6月6日 · (Yinz is the Pittsburgh equivalent of the Southern ya'll, I guess, and "Stillers" is the "correct" pronunciation of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team). – rhetorician Commented Jun 5, 2017 at 23:51

2019年10月3日 · you-uns, or yinz – Western Pennsylvania, The Ozarks, The Appalachians. ye, yee, yees, yiz – Ireland, Tyneside,Newfoundland and Labrador. Although these plurals are used in daily speech, they are not always considered acceptable in formal writing situations.

2017年9月8日 · To add to the commenters, yinz is another informal second person plural to accompany youse and y'all. Share.

2016年12月1日 · From an Irish perspective youse sounds totally fine:. The word ye, yis or yous, otherwise archaic, is still used in place of "you" for the second-person plural.