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Bookmark or Share- What is the origin/history of "you do you" (or "do you")?The full phrase this originated from is "do you and I'll do me". Another variation is "do you - cuz I'mma do me". The oldest reference to the phrase that I could find is from the song Do You by Funkmaster Flex (featuring DMX), from the album Volume IV, released on December 5, 2000.
- is there any difference between "you'd" and "you would" in the meaning?You'd has two meanings, which are you had and you would. 1 We use you had with better and you would with rather. You had is usually used for suggestion. Example: You'd better (you had better) avoid the stalls on the street. So you'd means you had in your first sentence. Your second sentence is grammatically wrong.
- grammatical number - Did English ever have a "you" plural? - English ...65. You and ye used to be the plural forms of the second person pronoun. You was the accusative form, and ye was the nominative form. Because of this, you still conjugates verbs in the plural form even when it is singular; that is, you are is correct even if you is only referring to one person. Thee and thou used to be the singular forms.
- capitalization - "you" versus "You" as polite form of writing - English ...The other is some legal contracts that have a section of definitions at the top where they carefully define "You" or "YOU" to refer to a specific category of person, like, "By 'You' we mean a person who has registered as a client of our company, who meets the requirements detailed in section 2.3.B, and whose membership is fully paid as of the ...
- meaning - "What about you?" versus "How about you?"6. From my point of view, if the difference between what about and how about in general is slight, the difference between what about you and how about you is even slighter. They are certainly interchangeable, as you mentioned, but I would go so far as to say that their common usages are semantically indistinguishable.
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