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

[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.