Another kind of buddy: ''guy''

[Doug Harris]

I've observed a lot of younger-than-most-everybody servers (in
restaurants) refer to their customers, including, collectively,
male and female couples, as _guys_. Though my grandmother would
have been appalled to be so addressed, I'm usually able to prevent
my knee jerking similarly, and to accept the remark in the 'for
the next hour I'm your buddy' way in which it was intended.
(the other) doug


> At 6/14/2007 11:12 PM, RonButters wrote:
> >Is it only gay men who address each other as "guy"?
>=20
> I think lots of younger-than-I men and women, and boys and girls,
> refer to each other as "guys" -- "you guys" -- without distinction as
> to the gender of the guys.=A0 I've even used it myself, addressing
> youngsters:=A0 "You guys need to be quieter in the library."=A0 But of
> the singular I do not speak; surely the vocative singular (if I'm
> using the right term) must be rare.
>=20
> Joel
>=20




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