Re: all at a sudden Firefox
Juan R. de Silva writes:
> Seriously. This one was quite an interesting remark. You see, these
> days, here on Canadian West Coast, most of people, especially young
> people, use "guys" for both guys and gals. And it always seemed to me
> that gals were promoting this change more actively than guys. I
> actually personally do not like the change much and it took me some
> time to get used to it.
> And now, when I'd used it just without much thinking any
> more... Bingo... You got me. :-)
> It looks like people at your place still use two distinct terms. :-)
> Where are you?
Here the gender of the word "guys" is context-dependent. "Gals" is
pretty much archaic.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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