As you move about your busy day, spare a thought for this country’s most literal-minded citizens, whose triumph in rewriting the national anthem we celebrate today. When they happen across a group of girls addressing each other as “you guys,” do they stop to correct them? Men are not boys and women are not girls, but men will sometimes be called boys and women girls. But there is a context for everything, and the same word often takes on different meanings, depending on the context. What on earth would they make of the woman at a protest rally in defence of the B.C.

Source: National Post June 15, 2016 23:37 UTC