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Topics of the day:



 1. you guys

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 3. TV and dialect (3)

 4. 2 pl



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Date:  Sun, 22 Jan 1995 21:29:03 -0800

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: you guys



Tim Frazer wrote:

> Some may find it sexist, but for years I've heard groups of

> adolescent and college women call each other "you guys."

> I think. Do I imagine that?



Douglas Hofstadter reported hearing a woman say that "even _guys_"

use the word `guys' for both genders.



Bill Cole saith:

> . . . . "Y'all" has become pretty ubiquitous. I've

> heard lots of folks in the Midwest use it. Southerners may

> have started it but it's being picked up by other areas.



I never hear it, perhaps because in California we take the time

to say "you two" or "you all" or "you folks".



> I would have offered "hey" until last night. "Hey" is the typical greeting

> here in the South (there's disagreement if Raleigh or North Carolina is

> actually in the South given the vast number of NY, NJ, MD & MA license

> plates around here). But on "Mad About You" last night four people greeted

> each other with "hey". Scared me.



That _is_ common in California.



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