I think youse came over with the Irish. Youse is used here on the west side of Cincinnati (we have verbal battles between eas and west) and y'all may have come over with the Scotts Irish. Somehow in parts of my native southern KY or Tenn. the word you'ns or yuns became used instead of youse. Here in Cincy it's spoken as youz.

Larry2


---- "Kennedy wrote: 
> Now Ralph it may be true that those in the North were the  "victors"
> but that victory did  not require a wholesale emulation of the Northern
> bastardization of the English language.  Y'all is the exceptable and
> even preferred in the South and the further South y'all go the more
> acceptable it be comes to all y'all.  Australia being very South it is
> fitting that y'all be the final word there.
>  
> Locally 'all you all'  often concludes a final angry and taunting phrase
> directed to an opposing group so as to ascertain that no individual in
> the group has been excluded and preceded by any number of derogatory
> descriptions of said group almost always including but not limited to a
> crude reference to the sexual act.  
> 
> pk
> 
> 	
> 
> May I remind the learned gentleman that those who say "youse" were the
> victors in the Late Unpleasantness, and that those who say "all y'all"
> were not.  Get wit da program awreddy. You got a problem wit dat?
>  
> Ralph
> 
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