two unrelated questions

[pauraque_bk]

1) For those of you who have "you guys" for the plural of "you" in your spoken dialect, how do you form the possessive?

-you guys' (same pronunciation as singular)
-you guys's
-your guys's
-(something else?)

I just heard the cashier at the store say "your guys's", which is a formation I enjoy. Language change by analogy is so funny-strange. I probably say "you guys's" most of the time, but "your guys's" also seems natural to me.


2) What helps one stop waking up during the night? This is a new thing for me, and I assume it's stress related since nothing else in my life has changed. I fall asleep fine but wake up several times.

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I'd say "you guys's", but more popular here is "youse" or "youse guys", which is possessive as "youse's".

[florahart]

1. you guys's, but more likely y'all's

2. I don't know. Sorry. Warm milk? Happy thoughts? Ummm.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

I think I would write it you guys' but I pronounce it you guyzez. I think I've been guilty of your guyzez at some point or another as well.

I only wake up if I am really, REALLY stressed out, like not normal stressed out, but really stressed out. Or if I dream weird shit that freaks me out, or if there are really loud noises. Or if I am in some kind of pain. Does your tooth still hurt? Are you dreaming weird shit? Or do you not know why you woke up?

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

I usually say "you guys'," but sometimes "you guys's."

The retail-related language construction I love most is "I can help who's next," or sometimes "I can help who's ever next." Back when I worked in a store, everyone I knew said it, and I hear cashiers say it when I'm waiting in line now, but you never hear it anywhere else.

2. God, I wish I knew. I haven't slept through the night in years.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

2. I don't know how to stop waking during the night, but listening to an audiobook makes me fall asleep instantly. I use this technique whenever I can't go to sleep or wake up in the middle of the night, and it never fails - it takes me out within minutes.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I've said "your guys's." (the second word is a homonym for "guises".) "Your guys's order is coming right up."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

1. I usually drop the "guys" for the possessive, i.e. "Where are you guys gonna go eat? Can I sit at your table?"

2. I know this will make you go baaaaaah, but Calms Forte really helped me go back to sleep quickly when I woke up multiple times while pregnant. Most times I didn't even remember waking up.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I think I've used many different forms of it: youse guys', you guys', maybe even your guys' at times.

I'm sure there's information about waking up during the night. Though since you haven't changed your diet at all I don't know what you could do...do you have anything that might be a trigger that you're just sensitive to now? Like light coming in or noise?

[sedesdraconis.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure "you guys" is actually in my dialect, just me and my friends use it cause we took linguistics and decided a second person plural pronoun is useful :p

I think most of the time we would switch to "y'all's" to form the possessive, or "your" with ASL plural pronoun gestures.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

1 - I do say you guys, but for the posessive I think I just say your.
2 - Yoga... if I'm being too lazy I have a hard time staying asleep.

[alibi-factory.livejournal.com]

Youse guys's, mostly.

[woolf.livejournal.com]

I grew up with your guys's, but that was always a pain to type, so I've reverted to y'all. (Which supposedly should be ya'll, according to my mother who lives in Arkansas, but meh.)

I'd generally recommend herbal tea for not being able to sleep. Or fish in Warcraft. That'll put you to sleep in a hurry.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

-you guys' (same pronunciation as singular)