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Old 03-10-2011, 12:01 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Tulip View Post
From what I know, southerners say "y'all," northeasterners say "yous" or I've seen it written as "youse," and mid-westerners say "you guys." A few years after moving from Hawaii to Texas, I was still using "you guys" for the you plural form. A friend said, there are girls here too.
Guys in the plural form can refer to people in general. Just as Muchachos refers to groups of mixed gender while muchachas refers to groups of women only.
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