![]() In my experience in the U.K and Ireland, we use “folks” much more often to mean parents than people. In British English, “folks” also means people but it also means “parents”. The folk in this town always drink too much. Some folks think that money grows on trees. In some situations, you can use either folk or folks but in other situations, it can be best to use folk or folks. “Folk” is a collective noun and refers to a group of people in general. In American English, folk and folks can both mean a group of people with a small difference. When we use the words folk or folks, we are talking about a group of people. Folk and Folks are never used in the singular, there is no equivalent of “person”. Folk and Folks can have different meanings depending on where you are in the world and folk can be both a noun and an adjective.įolk and Folks are both options to use as a plural way to say “people”. ![]()
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