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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: \"Guys\" is to \"\" as ...
Message-ID: <2@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 13:36:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.2
Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:36:47 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 19:42:05 EDT
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <305@decwrl.UUCP> dyer@tau.DEC writes:
>	The problem is that there *isn't* another word that would fit here.  One
>uses either "girl" or "woman."
>P.S.:  Don't be fooled into thinking that "gal" is a good match for "guy."
>"Gal" is just another way of saying "girl," so it is just as unacceptable.

     What we seem to need is a word with similar origins as "guy": i.e. a
short, one-syllable, slightly old-fashioned woman's name.
     Any suggestions?  A good one-syllable female name I can think of offhand
is "Ann(e)", though it isn't particularly old-fashioned.  However "guys and
anns" has a nice ring to it.  Maybe "Ruth"? "Beth"? "Eve" (nice religious
overtones) ?
     --Jamie.
    ...!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews
(p.s. no offense intended to all anns, ruths, beths and eves in the audience)