You= yew, yu = yoo? I was raised in an area with a large Hispanic population and I still can't remember to pronounce "u" consistently; it often ends up oo when it shouldn't. The BBC newscaster heard on BBCCanada TV says tewsday and it makes me jump because I say Toosday. This thread has wandered far from improper letter S endings. There was the thread about the difficulty of learning English, the pedant thread, and others in the past, all worried about pronunciation (which I generally spell as pronounc... unless I proof read later) spelling and grammar (always pronounced grammer). It shows that we are interested in the language, regardless or irregardless of how well we handle it. It wasn't all our schoolmasters fault that we differ- may we never lose all the regionalisms, dialects, vernacular, vulgar usage that make English the most interesting of languages.

On a Schoolmaster
Here lie Willie Michie's banes;
O Satan, when ye tak him,
Gie him the schoolin' of your weans,
For clever deils he'll mak them!
Robert Burns