C'mon, man!!! The sole purpose of my saying anything other than "Guilty dog barks first" here was to stir the pot!!!Doesn’t matter. You can’t give any hint that you were raised in or moved to Detroit, or embrace the Detroit area in any way… and then a call southerners “dum” unless you simply refuse to take a long hard look in the mirror. It would take million$ to convince me to live there.
That said, kudos to you for your subtle, self deprecating use of the spelling “dum.”
C'mon, man!!! The sole purpose of my saying anything other than "Guilty dog barks first" here was to stir the pot!!!
Naw, youse guys--that's more of a NYC or Jersey thing...I even saw that in some Shakespeare text too, so there's another colloquial Elizabethan term (cockney or Scots / Irish?) still in use in parts of USA. I'm from W. NY State...a world away from that NYC gene pool. But 'you guys' is definitely Yankee talk.
I think "you guys" is Yankee for "folks." The first time I used that word in an official letter, my commander thought is was slang or just southern edicashun. I took the time to show him the definition in a Webster dictionary and origins from the the German Volks and he wound up thinking the use was appropriate. He was surprised a Southern boy could use a dictionary or the word etymology in an English sentence. Then he found out I was a graduate engineer from an elite University; couldn't hardly believe it.
“To the German People”
