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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: Re: Girls, girls, girls
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Date: 17 Sep 90 22:16:52 GMT
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In article <85789@aerospace.AERO.ORG> (Margaret F. Keady) writes:
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Webster's Dictionary define "guy" as:
"... 3 b: PERSON - used in pl. to refer to members of a group regardless
of sex [example:] <saw her and the rest of the guys>"

Therefore the word "guy" seems to me as gender neutral to start with.

Any comment from native English speakers?


[This seems to be regional.  I used guys as a gender-neutral term in NY but
most midwesterners I've met think it's gender specific.  And the British think
it means something else entirely.        - MHN]