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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by pasquinelli on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:53PM (#31088110)
a group of women can be called guys. happens all the time.

your chart should be

- Group of women === "girls","guys"

- Group of men === "boys","guys"

- Group of women with one guy === "guys"

- Group of men with one girl === "guys"

you could call a group of women either a gendered collective noun or "guys". for a mixed group, you can't use a gendered collective noun. obviously.

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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by ars on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:50PM (#31089747)
What happened to the word gals in your list?
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Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words” by Macha on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:11PM (#31089981)
It's an American term (and as far as I know, an American regional term), that also seems to have had a decline in the US as people here mostly encounter it in older US movies?
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