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yow yins

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Scots

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Pronoun

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yow yins (personal, plural)

  1. (Southern Scots) Second-person plural pronoun; you; you lot (but without pejorative implications).

Usage notes

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Once commonly used with the third-person singular forms of verbs; now typically takes the same form as its more common non-number-specific counterpart ee, e.g.

Yow yins ir aye wattin ti gaun oot!