Circumlocutions with the noun guy in Hawai’i Creole English

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify and analyse the uses of the word guy in circumlocutions in The Revelation of St. John Divine in Hawai’i Creole English. The identified instances of circumlocutions with guy are contrasted with their parallel expressions found in King James’ Bible. The analysis was conducted with the corpus tools offered by AntConc. In the text, the word guy occurs 385 times and it is found 177 times in various circumlocutions.