Heard: "I'm on _your guys's_ side." [NT]

[Herb Stahlke]

I've heard it, and what's struck me about it is the case concord.  I've
also heard "you guys's" without the concord.

Herb


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:24 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca>wrote:

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> I'm used to "your guys's" in lower-level colloquial use in Canada. It's
> useful when the person wishes to be clear that it's the whole set of people
> and not just one. I don't use it myself, but I can hear it from people in
> service occupations and similiar ordinary-level positions.
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> James Harbeck.
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> On 2013-04-11, at 7:00 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> > "your guys's side" gets 60 hits on Google. I don't personally see
> anything wrong or odd about it. I guess you could say "y'all's side," but
> that doesn't work in my dialect....
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> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Seattle, WA
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> > On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> As opposed to the simpler, "on _your_ side." Yes, I know that this
> >> phenomenon - or should that be "phenomena"? - isn't new. But, WTF?
> >>
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> >> -Wilson
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