Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!cca!ima!ism780!darryl From: darryl@ism780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: re: woman/gal/girl Message-ID: <366@ism780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 00:29:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780.366 Posted: Wed Sep 26 00:29:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 06:57:04 EDT Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #N:ism780:13000036:000:691 Nf-From: ism780!darryl Sep 25 14:16:00 1984 [] It may interest those who believe that "gal" is a better word than "girl" when speaking of/to women that my Webster's New Collegiate says that "gal" is a direct alteration of "girl". So, in a technical sense at least, gal is as bad as girl. --Darryl Richman ...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl P.S. My, how interesting reading the dictionary is! It also claims that "guy" is directly attributable to good old Guy Fawkes (you remember, he tried to blow up Parliment in 1605). And the definitions are quite amazing: 1. a grotesque effigy of Guy Fawkes paraded and burned in England on Guy Fawkes day. 2. (chiefly Brit.) a person of grotesque appearance. 3. man, fellow.