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What does Chap when it describes a person? [closed] However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a (dated) British upper-class connection
Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad? chap — " (British) fellow Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person While chap and bloke to any male person My British fellow said: Chap is more delicate; bloke is rougher a bit Chap is posh, bloke is common
Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes [duplicate] (Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019) Increasingly there is criticism of using potentially gendered terms such as "guys"; you can argue if they are gendered, but there is still the risk of excluding women or upsetting people
What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you? This was used in Theodore Cyphon, or, The benevolent Jew: a novel, Volume 3 by George Walker, published in 1796 The protagonist is greeted not long after landing on the shore of Essex: "Halloo ! you teney" cried one, " the top of the morning to you Have you seen pass a tall chap, in a light blue coat, with striped trowsers "
Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation? The standard abbreviations are Ch and Chap …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as diverse as the inverted interrobang ⸘, biohazard sign ☣, and snowman ☃, not to mention the Shavian alphabet and much, much, much more
abbreviations - Usage of p. versus pp. versus pg. to denote page . . . As far as I know, pg is not an acceptable form, at least in formal writing The correct forms are p for a single page, and pp for a range In many cases, actually, you don't need any of them Quite commonly you'll find references in the form volume:page (s), like 5:204 or 8:99–108 (or, for works of a single volume, something like Blah Blah Blah 108)
What is a feminine version of guys? From all the answers, it's clear that using a masculine term (eg "guys") is considered sexist (see Leopd's comment), and using a feminine term (eg "gals") is also considered sexist (see The Raven's answer) The only way to be safe, then, is to use a gender-neutral term, eg "people" Of course, if you use "guys" for males and "people" for females, you're just reintroducing a distinction: you