Has this always been the case, or what? Which way is guys written in this sentence What are your guys favorite cars Should the word guys be written as guys, guy's, or guys' in this sentence? 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.
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. 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. 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
What is the best word to describe a man who demonstrates similar characteristics? I grew up learning that the comma must be placed there, but it seems like an unnecessary interruption in a phrase that isn't ever spoken that way. It is common to begin an email with the greeting hi all when the note is addressed to multiple recipients What, however, is the correct capitalization of all in this context 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.
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