28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
10:38 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:18:54 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:29 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
"Folks"? I really do mean "folks" when I write "guys",
<pedantry>
folk is the plural
and, as far as the use of gender-biased terms, as someone said well the other day, when you are in a hole, stop digging
randy
According to my Dictionary, both "folk" and "folks" are acceptable plurals.
Somebody I know once described somebody else as 'pendantic'. I asked "Don't you mean pedantic?" and he replied "No, *you're* pedantic for asking. He just hangs around with nothing better to do." :)