yous(e) – Ireland, Tyneside, Merseyside, Central Scotland, Australia, Falkland Islands, New Zealand, Philadelphia, parts of the Midwestern US, Cape Breton and rural Canada. unu/oona – Jamaica, Belize, Cayman Islands, Barbados, San Salvador Island. among(st)-you – Carriacou, Grenada, Guyana, Utila. you-all, all-you – Caribbean English, Saba. you lot – United Kingdom, Palmerston Island, Australia. For groups consisting of only women, forms like "you girls" or "you gals" might appear instead, though "you guys" is sometimes used for a group of only women as well. Gendered usage varies for mixed groups, "you guys" is nearly always used. you guys – United States, particularly in the Midwest, Northeast, South Florida and West Coast Canada, Australia. 
Y'all however, is also occasionally used for the second-person singular in the North American varieties.
y'all, or you all – southern United States, African-American Vernacular English, the Abaco Islands, St. Examples of such pronouns sometimes seen and heard include: Because of the loss of the original singular-plural distinction, many English dialects belonging to this group have innovated new plural forms of the second person pronoun. yours: independent genitive (possessive) formĪlthough there is some dialectal retention of the original plural ye and the original singular thou, most English-speaking groups have lost the original forms. your: the dependent genitive (possessive) form. you: the nominative (subjective) and accusative (objective or oblique case : 146 ) forms. In Standard Modern English, you has five shapes representing six distinct word forms: Yourself had developed by the early 14th century, with the plural yourselves attested from 1520. This distinction ultimately led to familiar thou becoming obsolete in modern English, although it persists in some English dialects. 
As in many other European languages, English at the time had a T–V distinction, which made the plural forms more respectful and deferential they were used to address strangers and social superiors. : 117, 120, 121 Second-person pronoun in Old English, Middle English, & Modern EnglishĮarly Modern English distinguished between the plural ye and the singular thou.
The development is shown in the following table. The dual form was lost by the twelfth century, : 117 and the singular form was lost by the early 1600s. Old English had singular, dual, and plural second-person pronouns. You comes from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base * juz-, * iwwiz from Proto-Indo-European * yu- (second-person plural pronoun). Further information: Old English pronouns, Proto-Germanic pronouns, and Proto-Indo-European pronouns
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