You guys.

I read an article this morning about Guy Fawkes (the star of my last post) and had to share it with you. I love learning about linguistics and the origins of things we say everyday. Holy Cow is probably one of my favorites to learn about.

According to the article, Guy Fawkes made quite the impression on the English language, even though his terror plot did not succeed. He was in a cellar below Parliament with barrels of gunpowder ready to blow up the government when police officials arrested him. He and his colleagues were put to death, but his name lived on when Londoners started lighting bonfires and making effigies of him. These effigies were called "Guys." The tradition carried over into Colonial America where the term eventually became part of our everyday slang. Read below to see how it transformed.

"By the mid-19th century, in American English, guy came to have a more neutral meaning, first a strange-looking straw effigy, then a strange-looking man, then just any man, a guy. And so we talk about guys today, a slangy way of referring to men and boys."

Isn't that interesting? I suggest you read the entire article from the Chronicle of Higher Education to learn how it transformed into "you guys."