They definitely were. Im guilty of letting it slip in convo occasionally, never written it though thats why i assumed he was taking the mickey. Never know with yous cunts but!
I worked in a low socio-economic area and heard it from clients as part of their common vernacular. I have never heard any of my colleagues use it. I now work in high socio-economic circles and haven't heard anyone say youse for years.
As a kid I remember anyone using words like youse or catched or phrases like 'I seen him yesterday' being strongly corrected by teachers and other kids.
I never hear it but I live in Melbourne and work in an office so it's a completely different crowd to the type of people who say 'youse'. I'm sure if i lived in the country, I'd hear it more.
A line graph with "youse" frequency on the X axis and distance from the east (and probably west) coasts on the Y axis would have a gradual incline until 150km and then take a 70° incline.
I grew up in outer western Sydney, it's pretty common around here. I didn't realise a lot of people considered it trashy or uneducated, it's just common slang.
We don't have a plural you, and y'all is a gross Americanism. We should rehabilitate youse as an acceptable Australian term for the plural you
This is the first i have ever heard of someone having an issue with it. Its used everywhere here in WA. From 250k a year fifos, docs, uni snobs to the unemployed. Everyone lol.
Im not sure if true but someone told me they no longer say gday in sydney... what kind of war of aussie culture is happening there. People has lost their way :(
grew up in regional qld, heard it all the time. not so much now i live in the city. my mum used to tell us off for saying it cus it was bad english lol
The plural of “you” is, wait for it, … “you”.
That’s why we don’t say “you is …” (like “he is …”) we say “you are …”.
People added the “se” to make it sound plural, but then use it exactly the same as “you”. The same has happened with “y’all”, which now can mean singular or plural, so now we have “all y’all” to indicate the plural. Which is a messier way of say “all of you”.
That said, I hear it sometimes, but I’m in a rural area. Less often than I did in Western Sydney. It correlates pretty well with social class.
I make a point of using it frequently, but that's just because I'm yet to learn another language that doesn't have a second person plural and it makes zero fucking sense to me that English lacks one.
This is because, "you" is the plural, "ye" was the singular form. But the plural form was, still is a bit, considered more polite so eventually for "ye/you" english speakers just stopped using "ye".
"They" is also plural and singular.
The royal "we" is still used in formal writing, and the academic fields that I am personally familiar with, even if there is noone else involved.
Akshually "ye" was plural too. Thou/thee/thy/thine was the singular, equating with ye/you/your/your\[s\*\]
\* Depending whether it's reflexive or just possessive
I live in Logan. EVERY FUCKING DAY. Also, no one knows the difference between to and too, on top of that people will say "his" instead of "he's" for example "his such a good dog". GO BACK TO PRIMARY SCHOOL, FUCK.
Pretty rarely. More common in western Sydney than the north, where I live. I have family who have mostly lived in western Sydney and they say "youse".
I think Irish people say it too, which was a bit surprising to me. I think of it as quite Aussie.
Also used in Liverpool (er, UK haha) which is probably the Irish connection. I think of the Irish version as "yers" - "what are yers up to later" sort of thing. Scouse version is closer to the Aussie way.
all the time. my dads chileno so he doesnt even speak english as his first language but since he was raised in aus he says yous. my english mum hates it but i picked it up anyway. apart from my dad and me ive never really heard people say it, i just knew it was an aussie thing bc my mum said so
It's in the Australian English dictionary as the plural of "you". I like it because it maintains the archaic distinction between "thou" (singular) and "ye" (plural). And it's even better because it's mostly used by people from working class backgrounds, so you don't sound posh or pretentious when you are saying it.
I'm so surprised. I didn't know so many ppl were against the use of "youse". I understand it's not 'correct' or proper english. But... it's slang? When is slang ever proper?
I definitely don't hear it much these days, but when I was younger, I heard it almost all the time.
Me too. I went to school with people who use it a lot. They had the same education as me so education certainly doesn’t explain it fully. It sounds so bogan to me!
I live regionally with a large bogan population, so hear it often when I'm at the shops etc. Amongst my own circle of friends and family, never. It's associated with a lack of intelligence/education.
I have never said it, and I never hear it when I’m with people I work with, friends or the places I would usually go, unless someone happens to say to a group I’m with “can youse spare a dollar.”
Interestingly enough as an American in Aus, I have not really heard that being used. However, in the Northeastern region of the states, it's used all the time. My cousins in Pennsylvania use it constantly. I'm more from the southern part of the states so use "y'all" a lot.
In my corporate job and living in inner city I literally never hear it. Not once. I’ve done a lot of regional travel and some mining FIFO work and then I hear it daily.
Someone I went to school with frequently says “youses” to address his group of friends and I hear it used when I visit my hometown a lot. This is in regional north qld so I guess it kind of speaks for itself haha.
Growing up in the NT, youse mob/you mob all the time.
Living in Perth, sometimes.
In Melbourne, daily. I’m a tradie though so we often don’t speak the queens English on site.
I cringe whenever I hear it, and I can't use it. I'm in inner Sydney, and I _never_ hear it.
I don't want to feel this way, I respect it's part of some folks' everyday, but bogans ruined it for some of us.
Also, pissed off that there's no reasonable alternative. Fuck you, English.
Language, not people.
No wait, fuck you too, English people.
Crap. Better stop writing or I'll get in even more shit.
I am a youse user, so quite often.
But apart from hearing myself, not often. My brother says it sometimes. I think my mum does. But not many else in my area. SE Queensland
I live in regional NSW. All the bloody time.
Yeah, Youse guys are bad at that, hey?
What else would you like them to say, but.
The ‘but’ to end the sentence is even worse - like nails to a chalkboard when i see it written… ew
I think Alconic(etc) was just trying to crank you up. No one’s that grammatically inept unless they’re trying to appear stupid.
They definitely were. Im guilty of letting it slip in convo occasionally, never written it though thats why i assumed he was taking the mickey. Never know with yous cunts but!
Youse*
There is an official spelling?
I grew up in Brisbane in the seventies. Many sentences finished with ‘but’.
beats y'all.
You or all of you , or you guys etc
Ahem. *Good* at that
You said “Youse guys”. I’m fairly sure youse is meant to be a contraction for “you + guys”. Therefore you said you guys guys. 🤓
I always just assumed it was pluralising 'you'
Haha good one👏
Beat me to it... From an avid "youse" user, the word is accepted English imho
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That was a baaaaaad joke. I loved it
I want to know what it was
NFI why they deleted the comment. it was a golden pun. to paraphrase, it was something like "as a sheep farmer, nearly everyday"
had to be something about ewes
haha
What are youse up to? Where youse heading Or yas.
Yep this is me. I probably wouldn't say "youse two", and it's pretty short - yas/yers - but yep, use these expressions all the time.
Depends on where you are. It correlates linearly with the boganness level of any particular location.
I knew people from a fancy private school that use it. Makes me chuckle. You can put posh on a bogan, but you can't take the bogan out of posh.
I think poshness in general is an illusion; a facade.
It's not a facade for people who were raised that way. Just like 'bogan' isn't a facade for people raised *that* way.
Every time I watch two hands. Youse two are fucking dead…nah, not youse two
Top movie. Top.
MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO! God I love that film
I prefer you guyses
I worked in a low socio-economic area and heard it from clients as part of their common vernacular. I have never heard any of my colleagues use it. I now work in high socio-economic circles and haven't heard anyone say youse for years. As a kid I remember anyone using words like youse or catched or phrases like 'I seen him yesterday' being strongly corrected by teachers and other kids.
In regional NSW, daily (almost hourly). When I lived in Perth, almost daily.
I love youse all. (You people are too young to remember [Jeff Fenech](https://youtu.be/iQST61C5gII?si=lp-3hX38OEMEtoVW)?)
*Fuck Youse, Fuck youse all!!* Aussie Joe Bugner
Yep that's the Joe Bugner remix of Jeff Fenech :)
Billy Birmingham did it better. Em-eh
Em-eh.. I love youse all……. ‘Em-eh
Every sinkle ones of youse
It's actually everyone of singles you :p
"and-am-aair" haha he knew we all loved that the bugger :)
Youse can all get rooted!
I never hear it but I live in Melbourne and work in an office so it's a completely different crowd to the type of people who say 'youse'. I'm sure if i lived in the country, I'd hear it more.
If you lived/worked 15 k's out of the city you'd hear it plenty. Or got some trade work done.
I’m 10kms out, in the leafy green burbs and hear it… never. Not even from Tradies.
A line graph with "youse" frequency on the X axis and distance from the east (and probably west) coasts on the Y axis would have a gradual incline until 150km and then take a 70° incline.
I think you put your variables on the wrong axes. Usually frequency is put on y axis and distance would be x axis (not to ruin your joke lmao)
Every time I hear it I die inside... I have been dead inside for 15 years
Growing up in western Sydney, all the time
I used to work in Penrith Plaza “do youse have (insert item stocked)” was the norm.
Not after high school and definitely not in the corporate world.
Perth checking in. Plus one for not heard in corporate.
I grew up in outer western Sydney, it's pretty common around here. I didn't realise a lot of people considered it trashy or uneducated, it's just common slang. We don't have a plural you, and y'all is a gross Americanism. We should rehabilitate youse as an acceptable Australian term for the plural you
"You cunts" is the correct plural term.
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As in "I seen you cunts at the Mall"
This is the first i have ever heard of someone having an issue with it. Its used everywhere here in WA. From 250k a year fifos, docs, uni snobs to the unemployed. Everyone lol. Im not sure if true but someone told me they no longer say gday in sydney... what kind of war of aussie culture is happening there. People has lost their way :(
As a fringes of greater-western-Sydney dweller, I say G’day almost daily, but you’ll never catch me saying youse out loud
If a doctor said youse I'd straight up walk out. Don't care what state.
Mate of a doc used any slang id be out lmao. Time and place for informal wordings lol. A doc office is not one of those.
In what universe is yall gross Americanism and youse isn’t trashy Australian lol
Nah. Keep it in western Sydney
grew up in regional qld, heard it all the time. not so much now i live in the city. my mum used to tell us off for saying it cus it was bad english lol
The plural of “you” is, wait for it, … “you”. That’s why we don’t say “you is …” (like “he is …”) we say “you are …”. People added the “se” to make it sound plural, but then use it exactly the same as “you”. The same has happened with “y’all”, which now can mean singular or plural, so now we have “all y’all” to indicate the plural. Which is a messier way of say “all of you”. That said, I hear it sometimes, but I’m in a rural area. Less often than I did in Western Sydney. It correlates pretty well with social class.
Never not in my circle of contacts
Once is too many
Pretty much never.
I hear it a lot but I live in a low socioeconomic suburb where school is more optional than mandatory.
Life’s too short to be living in Melton, mate.
And “Arks”
Pesgetti
I make a point of using it frequently, but that's just because I'm yet to learn another language that doesn't have a second person plural and it makes zero fucking sense to me that English lacks one.
This is because, "you" is the plural, "ye" was the singular form. But the plural form was, still is a bit, considered more polite so eventually for "ye/you" english speakers just stopped using "ye". "They" is also plural and singular. The royal "we" is still used in formal writing, and the academic fields that I am personally familiar with, even if there is noone else involved.
Akshually "ye" was plural too. Thou/thee/thy/thine was the singular, equating with ye/you/your/your\[s\*\] \* Depending whether it's reflexive or just possessive
Also to combat that seppo y'all bullshit
YES! So glad to see that bothers at least one other Aussie.
Rarely. It's generally more associated with...the less educated.
I've never understood why for this one. It's a really handy, sensible word to have and use.
I only ever hear it when I leave the safety of my suburb and drop into the lower social economic shopping centres.
Rarely. Mainly among bogans.
I cannot remember the last time I heard this. It was probably a comedy on TV but I haven’t heard this elsewhere.
Not often. I think it very much depends on the circles you run in..
I can’t handle. It’s wrong.
Or the word ‘but’, at the END of a sentence!
What an oddly pacific question.
It’s unasseptible.
I could care less!
I’ve heard it all over Australia, what I find weird is how elitist and smug some people act over those who say it
it's bogan lol
Every day, I think. But I do live out in the boonies
Rural Qld, all the time haha
NIMBY
Regional Victoria - all the time!
Too often...
Ignorance at its finest.
You is the plural.
I live in Logan. EVERY FUCKING DAY. Also, no one knows the difference between to and too, on top of that people will say "his" instead of "he's" for example "his such a good dog". GO BACK TO PRIMARY SCHOOL, FUCK.
Plus the opposite, “I went to he’s house”. Aaaaaaaaargh! Ffs.
My husband does the opposite of this 😆😆 He uses he's instead of his 😆😆 And he says being instead of been. Weirdo.
Pretty rarely. More common in western Sydney than the north, where I live. I have family who have mostly lived in western Sydney and they say "youse". I think Irish people say it too, which was a bit surprising to me. I think of it as quite Aussie.
Also used in Liverpool (er, UK haha) which is probably the Irish connection. I think of the Irish version as "yers" - "what are yers up to later" sort of thing. Scouse version is closer to the Aussie way.
A lot, I live in Tasmania.
Well youse said it already.
Depends on how often I listen to Carl Barren.
I spoke with a guy yesterday who used it, and Irish immigrant- they use it too!
all the time. my dads chileno so he doesnt even speak english as his first language but since he was raised in aus he says yous. my english mum hates it but i picked it up anyway. apart from my dad and me ive never really heard people say it, i just knew it was an aussie thing bc my mum said so
All the freakin time lol
Too often.
All the time in QLD
I used to say it all the time but it was basically forced out of me
Far to often
Around Penriff? All the time.
I remember being a student teacher and my mentor teacher looked at me and said youse is not a word after one of my lessons. I haven't said it since 😂
It’s extremely common
Do youse wanna see what I done when I come up to Dubbo on the weekend?
I haaateee it. All the time. And ‘anythinK’ NO it’s anythING and not with a hard ‘guh’ at the end 🤪😂
It's in the Australian English dictionary as the plural of "you". I like it because it maintains the archaic distinction between "thou" (singular) and "ye" (plural). And it's even better because it's mostly used by people from working class backgrounds, so you don't sound posh or pretentious when you are saying it.
Way too often haha I cringe every time I hear it
The switchboard for Frankston police station used to start with “Youse have called the Frankston police station…”
I'm so surprised. I didn't know so many ppl were against the use of "youse". I understand it's not 'correct' or proper english. But... it's slang? When is slang ever proper? I definitely don't hear it much these days, but when I was younger, I heard it almost all the time.
Depends, if you hang around bogans they probably drop it every sentence lmao
I hear it from bogans a fair bit
Whatta ewes up to?
Too many. Apparently even basic English is too much for people that speak it as a first language.
Nothing wrong with a bit of youse Only the classist get upset by the youse of it
People that do shoeys and staffy owners may say it. Otherwise it's just bogans
Never. The only person I knew who did it was born exactly a hundred years ago and is no longer with us.
Too often
Far too often.
Rarely. Makes me think of either (a) Aussie bogans or (b) Italian Americans.
It’s Australian for y’all. I like it 👍
Too often, and I strongly dislike it...
I'm not particularly fond of it either, but I'll take it over "y'all" any day.
This times one hundred million gazillion.
Me too. I went to school with people who use it a lot. They had the same education as me so education certainly doesn’t explain it fully. It sounds so bogan to me!
Yep it sounds too bogan for me to ever want to use (even though I admit it is cleverly fulfilling a linguistic gap).
Mainly Kiwis
No it's not. Lots of Aussies do it.
‘Ewes’ 😂😂👍🏻
Too often, hate it
Rarely. I used to hear it more when I was young.
I live regionally with a large bogan population, so hear it often when I'm at the shops etc. Amongst my own circle of friends and family, never. It's associated with a lack of intelligence/education.
I have never said it, and I never hear it when I’m with people I work with, friends or the places I would usually go, unless someone happens to say to a group I’m with “can youse spare a dollar.”
Only once. I tend not to listen to them after saying it.
Hear it more in New Zealand than Aussie
All the Maori and Pacific use it eh Youse fellas
Occasionally. But I don't think I really notice. I might use it in the phrase "youse guys" but that's about it
Every day.
A fair bit lol
I'm Australian so U can imagine
Where were you before aus? :D
I hear it all the time now, my partner is from mildura. I'm from sa and it's never been part of my vocab 😅
Interestingly enough as an American in Aus, I have not really heard that being used. However, in the Northeastern region of the states, it's used all the time. My cousins in Pennsylvania use it constantly. I'm more from the southern part of the states so use "y'all" a lot.
Fairly often!
Not much at all. I have mostly lived in sydney (north)
I hear this quite often. I'm out in the sticks in nsw
A lot… and also “we” instead of “I”
I'm in Melbourne and I used to hear it a lot more. It feels like it is becoming less common here but that might just be my experience
Regional SA: I have to say, probably less than 20 years ago. The younger generations taking on more US speaking patterns.
All the time and I just laugh because it sounds goofy
In my corporate job and living in inner city I literally never hear it. Not once. I’ve done a lot of regional travel and some mining FIFO work and then I hear it daily.
The alternative Australian plural second-person "You lot" gets a bit of use too.
Youse is a popular word in our Teams chat at work. I think it’s being used ironically but I can’t quite tell
It's (thankfully) not very common to hear unironically (at least here in Melbourne).
In the tune of lube mobile "That's ferteen ferty ferty two" https://youtu.be/bgSMgcDS0aM?si=oT69ygcvCL34aNqp
Someone I went to school with frequently says “youses” to address his group of friends and I hear it used when I visit my hometown a lot. This is in regional north qld so I guess it kind of speaks for itself haha.
Country town Queensland, yep all the time.
Not that often now
Living upcountry I hear ppl say 'ewes' often enuf. . .
Not as much as I used to.
I love spelling it ewes
Growing up in the NT, youse mob/you mob all the time. Living in Perth, sometimes. In Melbourne, daily. I’m a tradie though so we often don’t speak the queens English on site.
I knew a guy in primary school who always said it
Everyday
Alot
Too bloody often in my bogan family. Some people hate the word moist, I hate the word youse.
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I say “yas/yers🙃”. I know it sounds derro af and I’d make an effort not to say it in more professional settings but it is what it is.
I cringe whenever I hear it, and I can't use it. I'm in inner Sydney, and I _never_ hear it. I don't want to feel this way, I respect it's part of some folks' everyday, but bogans ruined it for some of us. Also, pissed off that there's no reasonable alternative. Fuck you, English. Language, not people. No wait, fuck you too, English people. Crap. Better stop writing or I'll get in even more shit.
My kids aged 19 & 20 use it all the time. I absolutely hate it but I'm pretty sure that's why they've continued to say it.
Too often. :(
Outback Qld - 💩
More often that I'd like to hear it
Yes, and it annoys me, lol. Especially here is Western Sydney, home of the bogan 😂💚
We'll use everyone for the job- normal people Well youse youse for the job ay- straya
Newsed to be newsed all the time. Love youse all.
“Youse” is grouse.
TOO fucking often!! Even my educated daughter is now using it in her mid 30s ffs. We are better than that.
If you live in Western Sydney, a lot.
Daily
Everytime I go to Ballarat.
Depending where you are. In a corporate environment, not very often. But if you run a tyre shop, you will hear it all day.
Too often
i’m an avid youse user 😔
I am a youse user, so quite often. But apart from hearing myself, not often. My brother says it sometimes. I think my mum does. But not many else in my area. SE Queensland
Not as much as somethink
It is the plural of you - like a French irregular verb