Dan Lester wrote:

> Actually that is one of the words I take offense at, particularly when it
> is used by a server (waitperson, waiter, waitress, etc.) in  a nice
> restaurant.   If I'm having a cold one with my buddies, and the one who is
> buying or serving says "What'll you guys have to drink?", that is fine.
> When I'm in a fine restaurant (minimum $50 per person plus drinks) and the
> server comes up and says "What'll you guys have to drink?" to my wife and
> me, I get ready to walk out.

We southeastern Americans solved that problem ages ago, the proper form
of the question is "What'll y'all have to drink?".  No gender bias down
here.
The northeastern translation is "What'll youse guys have to drink" which
remains, to this date, gender specific :-)

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>