What is the plural of "you"?

[struggle4progress]

[csziggy]

1. Y'all is the proper term since it is a contraction of "you all" n/t

[Orsino]

16. And for when it's not plural enough, there's "all y'all." n/t

[Jade Fox]

18. My favorite thing about living in the South....

was realizing "Y'all" made perfect sense.

[Mendocino]

2. Yoots

What?

Sorry your honor...Youths

[Demoiselle]

13. I can get drawn into watching that movie any time it's on...

it's like good music. I know what's coming, but I want to hear it again.

[mikita]

14. agreed...

posi-traction!

[Dr Morbius]

3. Youse should also know that if youse don't watch it, youse gonna be singular forever. (nt)

[Recovered Repug]

4. I feel like a complete idiot.

I always thought that youse was singular. Therefore, the plural would be yice.

[Sanity Claws]

5. You forgot "ye"

That was the usual plural form in English until the 17th or 18th Century.
The Irish used that plural into the 20th Century. (My mother used to say it.) Don't know when they stopped using it.

[struggle4progress]

19. I thought "ye" was the formal form of "thee," just as "you" is the formal form

of "thou"

The distinctions you/ye and thou/thee mostly vanished and the corresponding distinction who/whom is in decline

You/thou will smite whom?
Who will smite ye/thee?

[Sanity Claws]

20. I just checked the dictionary

Ye is second person plural archaic or regional.

As I said, my mother was Irish and used it a second person plural.

[struggle4progress]

23. Wikipedia says I got it backwards

Ye/you apparently corresponds to thou/thee, and ye/you were simultaneously the plural and formal singular forms of thou/thee

So thou art right that "ye" be plural, and I right that "ye" be singular formal, but "ye" were once the plural of "thou" afore "thou" wert forgot, afterwards remaining in some parts the plural of the new singular "you," though in other parts the plural of the new singular "you" remained the old plural

[Sanity Claws]

21. Duplicate

[HopeHoops]

6. In MA, some people use "youse guys".

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. the plural of y'all is "all y'all"

:)

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/yall.html

“How y’all doin’?” If you are rendering this common Southernism in print, be careful where you place the apostrophe, which stands for the second and third letters in “you.”

Note that “y’all” stands for “you all” and is properly a plural form, though some southern speakers treat it as a singular form and resort to “all y’all” for the plural. Most southerners reserve “all y’all” to mean “each and every one of you.” Then there is the occasional case in which the speaker is addressing someone representing a store or other institution composed of several people: “Do y’all sell shop vacs?”

[Captain Hilts]

11. Yes!

[Withywindle]

15. Yup. :)

"All y'all" can also be used to refer to multiple people who aren't present in the conversation but still indicated.

For example, when you're talking to just one person and you say, "We're havin' a barbecue on Sunday, so why don't all y'all come over?" the invitation includes the person you're speaking to and his/her family.

[rug]

8. w

[MorningGlow]

9. Other

You all everybody.

[Captain Hilts]

10. I can even say 'y'all' and still sound like a Yankee. nt

[Patiod]

12. you guys

No matter what the sex of the audience.

[Liberal Veteran]

17. Y'all, as in, "Y'all turn that goddamed music off for I call the law on y'all!"

[Taverner]

22. Vosotros