How do you informally address a collection of people?

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Is there a word which is not too formal or informal?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"you lot"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"my bitches"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i call people 'guys' unless they are only girls. then i call them 'girls'.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

all ya'll

― heeeeeeee (kissmyfist), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Second Person Pronoun

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

How y'all doin?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hey y'all

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I just call them 'guys', even if they're all female.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Used to be guys/you guys. I picked up y'all because it sounds more folksy and Texan, and now I can't stop.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Yous Guys"

― West Coast modJ, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

dudes.

or more formally, dudes and dudettes.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Motherfuckers. Ex Get your hands off of my woman, motherfuckers.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

folks
vicelords

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm at work, I refer to them as "assholes" Ex you assholes will miss me when I'm gone.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ye faceless throngs.

― may pang (maypang), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Going for the absolutely boring answer here -- "you guys".

Even if it's a massive gathering of females we're talking about.

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I will typically call any group of people "MOTHERFUCKERS!!!" -- in the most affectionate possible way, of course.

Anyone so easily offended by that is not someone I want to be my friend anyway, so it serves a sort of weeding-out function as well.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

3 exclamation marks cancel out any attempt at affection.

See watch: "Honey, I want to make sweet love to you!!!"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

also "peoples" Ex okay peoples let's all be nice and stop bickering

or at satanist functions, bretheren.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Motherfuckers if at all possible. I can't believe no-one's suggested Broheems.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"WASSUP WEINERS???????"

or on 31st Oct

"HELLO WEINERS!!!!!"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

with a loud "oi yous fullas!". or in polite company, a shrill whistle.

― petra jane (petra jane), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post -- Oops wrote: "Honey, I want to make sweet love to you!!!"

Dude, every single time that phrase has been said to me using 3 exclamation points, I have found it to be most exceptionally affectionate, myself.

(pronouced chik chik chik of course...)

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

honest to god, when I was living in northern Ontario, Naturaly Superior!, I over heard my Newfoundlander roommate talking to his family back home:
"Things is going pretty good here b'y, but instead of saying 'youse' they say 'y'all'."

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Newfoundland = Scouseland well poo ur gosh well I never.

― bubble, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"PARTY PEOPLE..."

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

Lads, gang or folks

― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:53 (nine years ago)

you're just clicking 'random thread' aren't you

― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:53 (nine years ago)

For some weeks now

― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:55 (nine years ago)

seekers of the truth

― Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:55 (nine years ago)

Ah here it's only a button man

― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:56 (nine years ago)

some ~~weeks~~ years now

― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 December 2015 02:57 (nine years ago)

I had a good run for a few years there I'm only back on the night shift as a cameo enjoy it

― darraghmac, Saturday, 19 December 2015 03:02 (nine years ago)

four years pass...

A while ago I asked twitter for examples of male-to-male address terms in the UK for an episode of @R3TheVerb (https://t.co/fYfx8oSlIA), with a promise to collate them. Here are the highlights so far (@IMcMillan - I need to add your long list from Yorkshire!). Happy to add more.. pic.twitter.com/aurlHA63HQ
— Rob Drummond (@RobDrummond) January 21, 2020

― j., Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:19 (five years ago)

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