MRAB wrote:
Carl Banks wrote:
On Aug 17, 10:03 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
wrote:
I'm no English native, but I already heard women/men referring to a
group as "guys", no matter that group gender configuration. It's even
used for group composed exclusively of women. Moreover it looks like a
*very* friendly form, so there is really nothing to worry about it.
I like how being very friendly means calling people after a guy who
tried to blow up the English Parliament.
Guy Fawkes adopted the name Guido while fighting for the Spanish in the
Low Countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
I didn't get Carl's reference. The only thing I know about blowing the
parliament is from the movie V for Vendetta (no comment please !).
Now thanks to your link:
"In 18th-century England, the term "guy" was used to refer to an effigy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy> of Fawkes, which would be paraded
around town by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy"
Well, my knowledge is much too low to get this kind of reference from
the start. :-/
JM
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