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. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
