RE: Many English people can't speak English?
July 15, 2015 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2015 at 8:07 am by Nope.)
(July 14, 2015 at 11:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(July 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm)Nope Wrote: ...
The English language needs a plural form of the word, you. ...
It has one. It is "you." "You" is both singular and plural. It works well for both. If you need to make it clear that you mean more than one person, you can say "all of you," as in the sentence "all of you are invited to dinner."
Or you could say y'all which is shorter than 'all of you'
At least I no longer pronounce the word, can't to rhyme with ain't. Sometimes I can't understand very strong, rural accents of older people. Once a elderly man stopped my husband in the store and asked if we knew were the 'can o jaws' were. Neither of us had any idea what he was saying. Luckily a employee was close by and she said, "Oh the canning jars are on aisle...."
