In her column in the Sunday Telegraph, Francis Whiting raised this issue because she had received a letter (Ah! That I (the writer) am a delightful person and what I have just written is delightful? Why do people try to turn the second person pronoun ‘you’ into a plural by saying ‘yous’? The Oxford says that form is used in Scotland, parts of the United States and Australia. And it remains relatively rare – ‘yous’ occurs about 0.05 times per million words in modern written English.