Comments for Prime Instruction & Language | Austin's Premier Language School https://primeinstruction.com We provide professional Spanish classes in Austin, Texas Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Comment on Is Y’all Proper English? No, But It Should Be by Barbara https://primeinstruction.com/is-yall-proper-english/#comment-673 Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:02:29 +0000 https://primeinstruction.com/?p=13339#comment-673 I think yous has something to do with how the plural of “you” is translated from Italian. I hear yous mostly from 1st and 2nd generation Italians in my area. Italian has a distinct plural for “you” and English does not. The Hispanics don’t make this mistake as far as I have seen.

]]> Comment on Is Y’all Proper English? No, But It Should Be by Alex Alistarh https://primeinstruction.com/is-yall-proper-english/#comment-600 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:48:56 +0000 https://primeinstruction.com/?p=13339#comment-600 There is also a slang expression in England: “You Lot” , which is British colloquialism for “You people”, but as this post explains: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/303575/what-does-its-you-lot-mean , it gives the sense of subordination.

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