Re: y'all

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, G&P <G.and.P@...> wrote:

> "you guys" …
> "youses" and "youse guys".
>
>
> Kiwi-speak (and I
> think Oz-speak, too) has
> “you guys” (socially fairly acceptable at all
> registers, except
> very formal), and “youse guys” (socially marked
> as either low
> register or comic).
>
> Peter
>

Did they get it from American English? If so, via film or via US immigration to those countries?