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 Originally Posted by Savy
guys is a general term used teachers use to address classes as a whole which isn't great. I've never really thought about it too much until I heard a teacher use it in an all girls school.
In English and Romance languages, the masculine plural is used for all-male and mixed groups while the feminine plural is only used for all-female groups. This is a point of contention in the pronoun debate for similar reasons as what you're pointing out above, even though it really should be 'girls' in that case if it's referring to an all-female group.
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