Re: [ADS-L] Tough G uy Phonology

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

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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