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From: jcgowl@ihlpg.UUCP (r. gowland)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Why Women
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 15:10:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 27 15:10:39 1985
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> would prefer to be called a) ladies b) girls or c) guys 
>
> Laura Creighton
> utzoo!laura

In English as she is spoke by us Brits, a Lady is the wife of a Lord.
So, if your husband is a Lord I can call you a Lady.

A Guy, to us Brits, is a stuffed dummy to be burnt on the bonfire
on Nov 5th each year in celebration of the fact that Guy Fawkes
failed (sadly) to blow up our Houses of Parliament.

I know that this is (mostly) read in the US of A, but some of us
still speak it like that. I tend to use the word Bird in the
context of a female at the older end of girl where it overlaps
the younger end of woman.

Don't forget this is my opinion and not a statement of fact.
-- 
views expressed herein are my own, not those of my employer
ihlpg!jcgowl Roger R. Gowland at AT&T Bell Labs, Indian Hill
        now appearing back here for one week only
   and going home Friday to ... hvmga!rgowland at APT UK