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		pasquinelli on April 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate... a group of women can be called guys. happens all the time. your chart should be - Group of women === "girls","guys" - Group of men === "boys","guys" - Group of women with one guy === "guys" - Group of men with one girl === "guys" you could call a group of women either a gendered collective noun or "guys". for a mixed group, you can't use a gendered collective noun. obviously.

ars on April 19, 2022 [–]

What happened to the word gals in your list?

Macha on April 19, 2022 | [–]

It's an American term (and as far as I know, an American regional term), that also seems to have had a decline in the US as people here mostly encounter it in older US movies?

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