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your right if we chase language back the masculine form was always used... probably back to the dawn of time.
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I'm on quick reply, so I can only see a few lines up. If this post isn't consistent and contradicts itself, just read the last 10 lines or so.
There's a button on the Quick Reply toolbar next to the "A" on the right that increases the size of the box.
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There's a button on the Quick Reply toolbar next to the "A" on the right that increases the size of the box.
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Well them words look normal to me. Depending on where you live, there are always slag words and differnt words we call certain workers or people.

I like to use the US ones as I am a UK person who does US style Hip Hop. That makes me sort of know the UK and US ones.
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Oh I found the make-the-box-bigger-button. Cool.
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Well, i dunno. The ending -man is used to describe many occupations. but still, what about Hu-man, or just man in general, because that is what the human race is sometimes reffered to; man.
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Does anyone know where I can get complete lists of the US word differnces to the UK? I need them all and I need to learn them all.

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UK: You all, US: Y'all.
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Does anyone know where I can get complete lists of the US word differnces to the UK? I need them all and I need to learn them all.

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UK: You all, US: Y'all.
It's mostly just the southern half of the us that says y'all. I'm a northerner but picked it up after a summer in the south when i was a kid. I rarely say it though.
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UK: You all, US: Y'all.
The US is big, so we have a number of accents and dialects. The southeast (stereotyped as rednecks and confederates) say things like y'all and "Boy howdy!" but the northeast is mostly normal. Some of New England may say "Ayuh" for yes. That bothers me. My own state, Massachusetts, since the key city is Boston, is stereotyped for not including a lot of "R"s in our sentences (I talk like that a lot, but not to the obnoxious extent that people who make fun of it do), as in "I drive a cah." Now, then the west, I really just don't know. Much more normal if you ask me.


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The US is big, so we have a number of accents and dialects. The southeast (stereotyped as rednecks and confederates) say things like y'all and "Boy howdy!" but the northeast is mostly normal. Some of New England may say "Ayuh" for yes. That bothers me. My own state, Massachusetts, since the key city is Boston, is stereotyped for not including a lot of "R"s in our sentences (I talk like that a lot, but not to the obnoxious extent that people who make fun of it do), as in "I drive a cah." Now, then the west, I really just don't know. Much more normal if you ask me.



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