"your guys's" (2nd person pl. poss.)

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> The amusing 2004 film, _Napoleon Dynamite_ features a poor nerd
> antihero who says the following:
>
> "Could I use your guys's phone for a sec ?"
>
> The plot is set in the town of Preston, ID, which happens to be the
> birthplace of cowriter Jared Hess (b. 1979).
>
> Google turns up nearly 7,000 hits for "your guys's," so I think we can
> consider it real.  (That's twice as many hits as for "you guys's,"
> though the former group may be swollen artificially by references to
> the film.)
>
> Me, I say "your.

i'll forward some exchanges between me and john singler on this usage,
from last month.

arnold