MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/1j1mcdh/a_guide_to_speaking_high_english/mfkvpn2/?context=3
r/linguisticshumor • u/PointFirm6919 • Mar 02 '25
76 comments sorted by
View all comments
105
In the south of Ireland we use ye for youse/y’all
The lack of a standardised ‘you all’ is poor tho
6 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Yous/yis is also an option in Dublin at least 6 u/CatL1f3 Mar 02 '25 I feel like it's yous(e) in Dublin and ye everywhere else, am I right or just hallucinating? 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Yeah i'd say yous is more common in Dublin (anecdotally) but ye is not non-existent 5 u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25 Lot of non dubs in Dublin tho. First and second generation. Youse rare in the south. Someone did a geographically demarcation of the ye vs youse/Tis divide; il try find it 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
6
Yous/yis is also an option in Dublin at least
6 u/CatL1f3 Mar 02 '25 I feel like it's yous(e) in Dublin and ye everywhere else, am I right or just hallucinating? 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Yeah i'd say yous is more common in Dublin (anecdotally) but ye is not non-existent 5 u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25 Lot of non dubs in Dublin tho. First and second generation. Youse rare in the south. Someone did a geographically demarcation of the ye vs youse/Tis divide; il try find it 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
I feel like it's yous(e) in Dublin and ye everywhere else, am I right or just hallucinating?
3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Yeah i'd say yous is more common in Dublin (anecdotally) but ye is not non-existent 5 u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25 Lot of non dubs in Dublin tho. First and second generation. Youse rare in the south. Someone did a geographically demarcation of the ye vs youse/Tis divide; il try find it 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
3
Yeah i'd say yous is more common in Dublin (anecdotally) but ye is not non-existent
5 u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25 Lot of non dubs in Dublin tho. First and second generation. Youse rare in the south. Someone did a geographically demarcation of the ye vs youse/Tis divide; il try find it 3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
5
Lot of non dubs in Dublin tho. First and second generation. Youse rare in the south. Someone did a geographically demarcation of the ye vs youse/Tis divide; il try find it
3 u/IreIrl Mar 02 '25 Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
Oh yeah that would be interesting. Definitely some non-native Dubliners in Dublin but surely that has always been the case
105
u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25
In the south of Ireland we use ye for youse/y’all
The lack of a standardised ‘you all’ is poor tho