atw: Re: Youse

Do you think there are regional differences? I live and work near Adelaide but 
don't recall hearing 'youse'.

BTW, I enjoyed Terry and Peter's responses, even if Peter did not spell 
engageable correctly. :) When we were using the term, we did discuss whether it 
should be engageable or engagable, but we settled on the first spelling.

Cheers
Kath


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ros Byrne
Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2012 8:51 PM
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Subject: atw: Re: Youse

I've been thinking that the Aussie youse I've heard is mainly from indigenous 
folk, but maybe it's also working class Aussies?


Ros
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On 11/01/2012, at 8:19 PM, Terry Dowling wrote:


The 'sheilas' bit I accept as Australian. But the different definitions we've 
seen seem to imply it's slang "specific" to a lot of different places.


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Parker
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Subject: atw: Re: Youse

Well, here's my two bob's worth.  Sitting on a 747 at Heathrow one night in 
March 77 waiting for the stragglers to board and I have a group of hosties ( 
not my name for them) and a bloke in a smart orange jacket - obvioulsy the boss 
chatting away.  Then:

"C'mon youse sheilas, time for some work".

What better intro to Australia!


Bill
On 11/01/2012, at 3:14 PM, bja wrote:

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