This bumper sticker explains how some people in Vermont speak. Photo by Helen Woolger
This bumper sticker explains how some people in Vermont speak. Photo by Helen Woolger

Youse, Yiz or Ya’ll. Readers weigh in on the way we speak and the words we use. A lot depends on where you live and where you grew up.

We may speak the same language, but are we saying the same thing?
28 May 2026 | 11:59
Evergreen

Well, I should have seen it coming.

A couple of weeks ago when a column of mine about regional words ran in this newspaper, I managed to irritate a couple of people. People from the Bronx. People I’d accused of saying “youse” instead of “you” as in, “Youse people from the Bronx talk funny.”

I asked readers...