You, ye, yis, y'all

[hunnymonster]

Minimalist Mum!:icon_biggrin:

No - minimalist mum told you when dinner was to be served. If you were not there by that time (hands washed, seated at table), it went in the dog (even though we had no dog)...

 

[Dr Rick]

Re: RE: You, ye, yis, y'all

How cumbersome for a mother to have to lean out of the window and scream 'The dinner of all of you is ready' or 'All of your dinners are ready'.

She doesn't. English has a plural you: it is "you". What it doesn't have is a specifically-singular "you", although it used to: "thou". At one time "you" was exclusively formal or plural, as "vous" is in French, and "thou" mapped to "to".