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Submitted by [deleted] t3_102qqy3 in Pennsylvania
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I say youse when referring to a group of people. Like -youse guys -
Definitely hear it in Schuylkill county
I have a ~30 yo coworker that’s says it all the time. Northern Dauphin Co
Its pretty much like y'all. Just addressing more than one person, although sometimes it sounds odd in places y'all would be okay. Like "Hi y'all" fine "Hi youse" not as.much. in place of that I'll just drop the youse or use something else. But I do use it alot still like "how.youse doing" or alot of the times if I want both my kids to do something I'll tell them ,"youse need to do (whatever)" or sometimes "youse two" it feels wierd typing it out because it's not something I ever use in text but it's just to me the plural form of you like cookies is more than one cookie youse is more than two people
For me just youse. Youse guys feels redundant. Youse already implies there's more than one.
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Nope. Always Yall 😆
Bucks/montco guy here. Never heard it in person.
I use youse still… in York. I hear it a lot around here.
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My whole family does, northern Lanc and Lebanon county folks.
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My grandmother from Fayette County does
People still say it where I’m from and still keep to the old regional dialect in general but mostly just the older generations. I don’t mind regional dialect type stuff but that one is so nails on a chalkboard. Y’all sounds even weirder to our ear and would stick out.
I grew up in Bucks county and lived there for 30 years…I don’t recall ever hearing someone say youse unless I ventured into NE Philly.
in my family it was yinz.
Younses
Hazleton still usin' yous.
Prominent in Berks too
That's a Pittsburgh area word. (Where my extended family is from as well.)
It’s Yinz for me.
Y’all or yinz
I hear it infrequently, but often enough to not be too alien. I say "yinz" often, that folks do a double take. Being from Pittsburgh originally, yinz took root early on. In college in Philly, I heard you'se a lot.
Living in Central PA now, I don't hear you'se or yinz too often...more y'all.
And "Yuns,".
My family says “you’uns”
When I visit my family in the country they say You’uns
It’s definitely used in the Scranton region 🫤 “yous guys” makes me cringe so hard
Youse twos got it figured out!
Y'all is like bro country music and shiny pickup trucks. It's totally phony and affected behavior. That being said, I've tried my best to be literate so I don't say "youse" or "you guys" though I'm near Pittsburgh so a "yinz" is bound to slip out.
Still in use amongst all ages, though waning. It was never written much, if at all, but part of speech.
Yinz don't know what you're talking about.
Lived in PA for well over 20 years and I've honestly never used the term "youse" or even heard it before, but honestly I might not have been paying attention to it. Kind of like how when you live somewhere for so long, you just don't notice stuff like that anymore.
Sounds like Pittsburgh verbiage. Not being mean, matter of fact is all. Like "wurter" in Philly for water.
You just “yoused” it! Lol. Jk.
Whoever downvoted this: is there another area where they say yinz? I'm not mad, merely curious. I was under the impression that SW PA was the only area they used yinz.
I refuse to believe anyone says yinz. Schuylkill County. Definitely use youse guys
It’s yinz now
So far have not heard Yinz used, I have seen it on alot of t-shirts though
OG yinzers do. Any other time you hear it, it's said ironically.
Youse is alive and well in Luzerne County.
I live in and grew up in Lancaster county. My grandparents, aunts and uncles, and my dad use it regularly. The younger generation of my family doesn't really use it often. We all have PA Dutch roots, from the Cocalico area.
Yinz is proper English.
youse is alive and well in certain parts of philly/burbs. not youse guys… more like “what did youse end up doing last night”
it’s also very familial. I live in chester county currently but my family is from north philly so I still have a habit of saying it even though it’s not as common out here.
Well, so does plural you, but people still say You guys.
Youse need a drink of water?
I say it but have probably never typed it.
Heeey Yoouuuusee Guuuys!!!! ~if sloth was born in south Philly
No one uses youse or yinzs in my part of the state.
I always spelled it "yous"
it's very much a philly area thing. pittsburgh is more "yinz"
"All-a-youse"
Being in a smaller town, young and old folks still use it plenty here.
Nobody writes it. It's a dialect
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My wife is from Fayette County and used to say yinz or yinz or whatever. After twenty years with me below the Mason Dixon line, she's been converted to "y'all".
You have to go west young man. My parents and grandparents were from Johnstown and my wife from Connellsville. Yinz is real, my friend.
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Still very common in both NEPA and Northeast Philly
She’s a traitor :(
but I hear people say yinz/youse interchangeably. You’re not so much tho.
Aboslutely! I moved to Pittsburgh years ago but when I visit my family in NEPA, I explain to them Yinz is just another form of youse.
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Everyone I know from bucks county and Philly still say youse, I do as well although I'm living near Pittsburgh now.