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Yours vs Yous - What's the difference?

yours | yous |

As pronouns the difference between yours and yous

is that yours is that which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun while yous is you (plural).

yours

English

(wikipedia yours)

Pronoun

  • That which belongs to you (singular); the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
  • :
  • That which belongs to you (plural); the possessive second-person plural pronoun used without a following noun.
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
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    • Usage notes

    * In British English the adverb almost invariably follows the word yours'' at the end of a letter; in most dialects of American English it usually precedes it. As a general rule, ''sincerely'' is only employed if the name of the recipient is already known to the writer; a letter begun with ''Dear Sir'' or ''Dear Madam'' finishes with ''faithfully''. ''Yours'' on its own and ''yours ever are less formal than the other forms.

    Derived terms

    * up yours * what's yours * you'll get yours * yours truly * you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    References

    yous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pronoun) youse, youze

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, AU, NZ, South Africa, New Jersey, Ireland, Scotland) You (plural).
  • (dialectal) You (singular).
  • * 1909 , (PG Wodehouse), The Gem Collector :
  • *:‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’
  • * 1938 , (Patrick Kavanagh), The Green Fool :
  • *:‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.
  • * 1988 , (Kathy Lette), Girls' Night Out :
  • *:‘But what I also seen is that youse' have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. '''Youse''' have never had anyone who'd stand up to ' youse .’
  • * 1992 , (Edward Bond), In the Company of Men :
    • You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!
  • * 1992 , Robert Dubin, Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World , page 10:
    • Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous .
  • * 2010 , Patrick M Morley, The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face , page 36:
    • There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.

    Usage notes

    * The term is predominantly used in Scotland and Ireland and throughout Australia, as well as overseas areas of previous Irish emigration e.g. some parts of the US (Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA) and northern Nova Scotia and Lanark Ontario/Canada and South Auckland, New Zealand. It also occurs in Scouse. * Yous(e)'' as a plural is found in Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of the northern United States, and parts of Ontario. ''Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.

    Synonyms

    * see the list of other second-person pronouns in (m) English second person pronouns