My grandparents were originally from Wilkes-Barre and they definitely said “youse”. My grandma will say things like, “do any of youse want some ice cream?”, “what do youse need?”, etc. I occasionally say it without thinking, which gets gentle mocking around here.
I say slippy on occasion. It’s along the lines of when it’s really cold, it’s brrskis. I have no idea where those uses came from.
My mom will occasionally say “youse guys,” but it’s also not used seriously.
Thanks for the etymology lesson, flodnak. I, too, had always assumed that “redd up” was cognate to “ready”.
My family’s from Johnstown and I’m from Cleveland, and “slippy” sounds unusual but not odd to me (I think my granpap used to say it). But I don’t think I’ve ever heard “bathed” with a short A, nor “striped” to rhyme with “biped”. And I associate “youse” with New York/New Jersey accents, not anything Pennsylvanian.
My PA says bath’d. She’s from SE Ohio, but her parents were from Kentucky. I don’t know if I remember anyone else ever saying it.
I don’t know if it is the accent or what, but the “yous” from northeast PA is pronounced more like “use”, just like a plural “you”, than like the “youse” caricature that I think of with NY/NJ.
What, the whole country? Most of us don’t use either construction. It would be like nuking all of Canada because we find folks in Quebec insufferable.
interesting note on the brrskis. doneskis and brewskis are also pennsylvanian then also? well, brewskis is pretty universal whenever i’ve encountered it, but doneskis is another favorite of my midwestern friends.
I’m in SE Ohio, just to be clear.
Doneski or doneskis is fairly common here. Brewskis is very common.
No idea where this sort of faux Polish speak is coming from.
This idiom needs stamped out!
Not to mention that he’s from Oz, which hardly has a claim on being arbiters of proper use of the Queen’s English.