Bad accident.....

[Tractors4u]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( addressing girls as "youse guys". )</font>

Guy is strictly used for discribing those of the male gender here in the South. Now if you wish to address members of both the sexes you would say, "Hey ya'll", it works everytime.

 

[Junkman]

I heard them called "youts" in Pittsburgh last summer. Must be a regional thing, just like "inglsh"..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Sorry FOUREYES... I just couldn't resist.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[herdfan]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I heard them called "youts" in Pittsburgh last summer.)</font>

Wasn't that off of that flick, My Cousin Vinny?

 

[herdfan]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I realize that pedestrians have the right of way, but this is a reason why one should only cross streets on green)</font>

That reminds me of what my driver's ed techer in high school used to say about making a mistake even though you have the right-of-way; "You're right, dead right!"

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> I heard them called "youts" in Pittsburgh last summer. </font>

Close. I was raised in the Pittsburgh area, and it's actually "youns". Henro can verify.

 

[AndyM]

I've never heard "youns" (you-ins?) anywhere else except for Western PA. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I'm about 20 miles from the PA border, and it hasn't crept over this way, except for people like my wife who live in Ohio now.

I've addressed a mixed group of men and women as "guys".
"Hi guys"
I didn't know that it wasn't a national thing. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Henro]

I never knew how to spell it, but thought it would be more like "yens" or "yinns" which would be said like the word "inn" with a Y in front... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ... and an S in the back...

Spoken like this..."Yinns got it now?" or "Yinns going out to dinner tonight?"

Actually I think it is an improvement on the language, as it is specifically plural, whereas "you" can be either and is therefore inferior to our local language... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KiotiJohn]

Plural for ya'll? All ya'll. John

 

[Richard]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I've addressed a mixed group of men and women as "guys". )</font>


I can clearly recall grade school one day (Mrs. Schueller) where she went over this. I'm sure today it's not politically correct, but she pounded into our heads that you (paraphrased from 35 years ago) "always use the male reference when talking to a crowd (including women in crowd).

"Everyone is to bring "his" book tomorow"
"You "guys" need to stop putting napkins in his sandwhich"


I'm sure we all have more "proper" ways of saying that now, but in one school at least, it was being speficially taught that way.

Driver in video??? Idiot on the face of it. Perhaps she'd just gone through McDonalds drivethrough, had coffee on her lap....