Word Watcher

I enjoy listening to people talk and try to compare the words coming out of there mouths, with other word's that mean the same thing. For example, if you were in Ireland and wanted candy, you wound ask for sweets, not candy. Or the color black is dew, and rabbit is coney, and coney-Island in New york is really named rabbit-Island. So our country is made up with many different English languages, not what we learn in composition in high school. Even words are pronounced different from city to city, or state to state, even town to town. But that does not mean the words are wrong, they just sound different and some even spelled different. There is no law setting one word as right, except common sence. Take the word boy, it does not always mean a little male child. The rock singers "beach boys" are men. But would "beach men" sound right for a rock group? Sometimes older men will call other older men, who are younger then them boys. Women are often called girls as well. men even call women girls and even, a guy can be a man, woman, or girl or boy. Or a dude can be male female, no matter the age of the person. Our langurage changes in the U.S.A. every year. For example; not long ago there was no "dead beat dads" now three words take the place of dude, or a persons name. It was easer long ago when we just said "bad boy." How about "bad dad"? So a woman that said she was looking at a boy, may be looking at a man.