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From: colm@mathcs.emory.edu (Colm Mulcahy)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Girls, girls, girls
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Date: 19 Sep 90 01:35:23 GMT
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In article <653609811@lear.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
>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?





i was quite incredulous when somebody told me this upon first arriving in the
US - the usage is unknown in English speaking circles in Europe in my experience.



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