Re: y'all

From: G&P
Message: 63623
Date: 2009-03-20

>> 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).
>>

> Did they get it from American English? If so, via film or via
w:st="on"> US immigration to those countries?