This is an All-Ears English podcast episode one thousand seventy-two.

How to address a group of people in the U.S.

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Today, our listener Ayako asks us a great question.

Can she say you guys when she's addressing her students at school

get the nuances of using this phrase today.

Hey Lindsay, how are you?

I'm good, I'm excited for the holidays, but still working on my shopping as always right I always leave it to the

last minute I know I find it pretty stressful actually and like I always I try and be a good gift

giver but sometimes it's just like it's so hard it is it is it's

like if you don't have something immediately in mind to try and wreck your brain it's

oh it's tricky.

Yeah, I don't think well under pressure,

so what I should do is start in August

and start thinking, like scanning for ideas,

writing things down, but I never do that.

I start in like the first week of

December of course of course actually that's not that bad I feel like a lot of

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