BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: raredance
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 12:10 AM

LH,

I beliveve that should be "iffen all youse all's in doubt"

rich r

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: Gypsy
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 12:07 AM

And i add my own tooth grinding for the apostrophe added unnecessarily! Since i read without contractions, the absurdity of one, when it doesn't exist, can drive me mad.

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 12:02 AM

LOL!!! We's could justs starts putting "s"'s on alls our words, if in doubt. Anyways, its' not so's youseall dont' have to express yourselves's the ways I say's cos it's a long ways from being a free country if'n we's cant' put our apostrohe's and suchlike in the same places as our Daddy's did!!! Right? Do youse follows me?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: GUEST,Whistle and Bagpipes
Date: 07 Oct 01 - 12:02 AM

"Hows come?"

My peeve is the apostraphe s where it doesn't belong - saw a sign in a store where "Banana's" were 59 a pound

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: Bert
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:56 PM

Colloquialismses

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: raredance
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM

So annoying especially when, as I'm sure all you all know, there are legitimate ways to separate singular "you" from plural "you". "You all (y'all)" is singular and "all you all (all y'all) is plural. No need for you's to every be confused again.

rich r

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:53 PM

Yeppers.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:45 PM

Ah, yes. Good one.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:41 PM

Hows about?

Subject: Improper letter S endings! Arghhh!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 01 - 11:37 PM

Okay, pedants...here's one to grind your teeth over. People who stick an "S" on the end of a word where it absolutely does not belong...

Examples:

"alls" ("Alls I did was tell him how I felt!") (Even worse if you put in an apostrophe...and make it "all's"

"We's" ("We's are goin' downtown!")

"So's" ("So's I said to him...")

"You's", "Youse"...etc. (Are youse ready to order yet?") This from people who are apparently unaware that the word "you" can mean more than one person.

"anyways" (So's, anyways, I told him all's I could, but he still wasn't happy about it. Whaddayouse think about that?")

"a long ways" ("It's a long ways to Tipperary...")

There is a veritable plague of the expression "youse" in Orillia these days, particularly among waitresses. How does something like this get started?

Does anyone have any more examples of this kind of thing?

- LH