different between yous vs yus

English

Alternative forms

• (pronoun) youse, youze

Etymology

you +? -s (“plural suffix”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ju?z/, /j?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Pronoun

yous

1. (dialectal, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, New England, Northeastern United States, Chicago, Cincinnati, Liverpudlian, Cape Breton, Ireland, Scotland, Michigan, Teesside) You (plural). [from 19th c.]
2. (dialectal) You (singular).
   • 1909, PG Wodehouse, The Gem Collector:

     ‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’

   • 1938, Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool:

     ‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.

   • 1988, Kathy Lette, Girls' Night Out:

     ‘But what I also seen is that youse have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. Youse have never had anyone who'd stand up to youse.’

   • 1992, Edward Bond, In the Company of Men:

     You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!

Usage notes

• 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.
• Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Cincinnati [1] and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.
  • Both yourself and, rarely, yousself (or youseself, coordinate with the spelling youse) are found as reflexive forms.

Synonyms

• See the list of other second-person pronouns at you

Determiner

yous

1. (dialect) The group spoken or written to.

   What are yous kids doing?

Noun

yous

1. plural of you

Verb

yous

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of you

English

Etymology 1

Dialectal form of yes.

Adverb

yus

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
   • 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:

     Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?

   • 1922, Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922:

     Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

Etymology 2

Russian ?? (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ??? (?s?, “big yus”)

Alternative forms

• jus

Noun

yus (plural yuses)

1. Either of two letters, little yus (?) and big yus (?), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.

Translations

Etymology 3

See yu.

Noun

yus

1. plural of yu