Tough Guy Phonology

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From the same source :

  " 'Have youse," he asked the priest (and who shall sneer at the dialect of a warrior, particularly when the warrior is red-headed?)--'Have youse got anybody to soive Mass to-morror [sic], father?' "

  Note singular "youse."

  JL

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