What are your guys favorite cars Should the word guys be written as guys, guy's, or guys' in this sentence? It's normal nowadays to walk into a room (men and women, boys and girls etc) and go, hey guys! Has this always been the case, or what? I commonly use the word 'guys' to refer to a group of males colloquially It's colloquial but not rude, off putting, condescending, patronizing (though i wouldn't use it with a group of men at a bo.
The word guy is singularity male and the word guys can only be assigned gender neutrality if it wasn't used to describe men specifically, and which 99 percent of articles that refer to men uses the word guys. Since you guys is colloquial, if you’re writing down the possessive of the word, you should use a spelling that reflects its pronunciation If you’re wondering what to use in conversation, the answer is whatever you’ve been using all along. And possibly also hey guys, to a much lesser extent But i still think the word guy is gendered in pretty much every other context For example i wouldn't say the following to refer to a group with any women in it, and i'm surprised other respondents here would
Every guy cracks up his own wheel, and says all the others is made out o' sheet iron and bum castin's. When entering a place or meet a group of people or starting a speech, how do you say hello to the audience (from a few to thousands of people) I know that this depends on the situation Here we see that guys and gals and gals and guys clearly outnumber girls and guys and guys and girls Note that girls by itself crushes gals in usage, but that only supports the contention, because girls is mainly used to describe female children In fact, if we ngram girls with boys (i.e., male children) we see that the usage is roughly.
The most common complements for the terms you mention are male/female boys/girls guys/gals usage is far from parallel While arguably boys and girls should be reserved for underage (whatever that means) people of the respective genders, adults, especially younger adults (probably under 35) often refer to their own gender by the term of children of that sex However, refering to an adult using.
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