Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
I have noticed that the americans tend to use guys for girls. And of course ( as I have seen in my wife ) the Philippines has been heavily influenced by the americans in the recent past.
! You're RIGHT ... it's an *American expression - which (for some peculiar reason!) appears to have been adopted almost universally - and one I try to avoid, because of

(a) its *origins

(b) its all too common usage in reference to the female gender being strikingly, inaccurate.