Re: [ADS-L] Tough G uy Phonology
RonButters at AOL.COM
RonButters at AOL.COM
Fri May 26 00:45:22 UTC 2006
In a message dated 5/25/06 7:20:43 PM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:
> 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
>
Couldn't youse be plural in the sense, "You folks who run the church"?
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