I've just thought of another couple of hates - the mis-use of many words, in particular the words hero and awesome really wind me up - and I'm sure I could think of more, given time. Maybe I should apply to be on the TV programme "Grumpy (not so) old Women"
Oops, I must stop using awesome too much. I hate it when things are spelled incorrectly anywhere. Grrrr. I detest it when people say 'yuse.' Ugh.
I dislike it when people say things like 'yuse kids' or 'all of yuse.'
Youse as a plural is found in Australia, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of the northern United States, and parts of Ontario. Youse as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.
youse dialectal inflection of you, 1893, not always used in plural senses.
Because you is both singular and plural, various English dialects have attempted to revive the distinction between a singular and plural you to avoid confusion between the two uses. This is typically done by adding a new plural form; examples of new plurals sometimes seen and heard are y'all, or you-all (primarily in the southern United States and African American Vernacular English), you guys (in the U.S., particularly in Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast, in Canada, and in Australia; regardless of the genders of those referred to), you lot (in the UK), youse (in Scotland, the north east of England and New Zealand), yous (in Liverpool and some parts of Ireland, UK), youse guys (in the U.S., particularly in New York City region, Philadelphia, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and rural Canada; also spelt without the E), and you-uns/yinz (Western Pennsylvania, The Appalachians). English spoken in Ireland, known as Hiberno-English, sometimes uses the word ye as the plural form, or yous (also used in Australia, however not the form ye). Although these plurals are useful in daily speech, they are generally not found in Standard English. Among them, you guys is considered most neutral in the U.S.[1] It is the most common plural form of you in the U.S. except in the dialects with y'all, and has been used even in the White House.[2]
In your list of "explicitly pluralised" forms of you, you could include (primarily Northern) British yous. For some reason I can't fathom, there seems to be a tendency to spell it youse when the writer is trying to draw attention to the fact that he's reporting dialectal/uneducated speech. Maybe it's just that youse can also be used for the ungrammatical "You is", which I normally associate with stereotypical portrayal of poorly-educated black Americans in the past (esp. negro slaves on plantations). – FumbleFingers
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