Re: Regional greetings
It's a rare as radium to hear anyone called "duck", "love", or "petal" on this side of the shore.
Young men sometimes casually refer to each other as "man" or "dude." Both are less common among the older set. In Hawai'i they often refer to each other as "brah" (pidgeon English for "brother").
As I live in the southern U.S. people often call each other "sir" or "ma'am" often. It's still expected for young people to refer to their elders as such.
The plural is sometimes "y'all". It is a myth that anyone would every refer to just one person as "y'all".
It's a mild irritant to hear people refer to a collective group of people - with males and females included - as "you guys".
Referring to older people with any pet names like "honey" or "sweetie" always rings to me as being disrespectful.
I don't much care what people call me. My mother can't remember my name, so why should anyone else
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