General Linguistics discussion

I lived in various areas of PA Dutch Country at one time. In some areas people said You-uns(not sure of spelling). It was a nice touch, I thought. It really struck me when I saw a Latino Girl(not many that I knew of in the area) say that. I know people speak like the people around them generally so I was should not have been surprised. In other areas people said yous(spelling?). Again, I liked the down-to-earth nature of this speech. I always thought it be interesting to have a map of the regions of the plural of you and see if there is any overlap. I know Spanish has both a form you and a informal you for the first person. It's been so long but I think the formal you can also be plural. I don't recall the informal you being plural.

Haven't heard that joke lol. I am going to check out the link!

Y'all is an obvious one. In Pittsburgh I've heard people say "yins" which is certainly a shortening of "youns" "Yous guys" is what they say back home. Spanish does have a 2nd person plural in the informal, but it is used almost exclusively in Spain. Vosotros.

Thanks, Matthew! I hadn't heard the "yins" It's been so long since I studied Spanish, but it seems like we used vosotros in the classroom. In high school, I had a teacher who loved to have us do several verb tenses on tests.