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What languages do you speak?
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That precisely how the Scots and the Irish would ask it, the yanks would say "y'all". It's just the English who are fucking weird :)
Yeah, sort of. I also use "yous" frequently as part of my dialect regularly. But it's certainly an informal usage that I would not normally use in written communication.
I actually suspect, though I haven't investigated it enough to be confident, that there may be something else going on. That there's possibly a difference—in my dialect, at least—between 2nd person plural "multiple specific people" and "a general large audience". And that "yous" might only be appropriate in the former.