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In my wanderings around Japan giving my kana knowledge some practice I've
noticed both the words "ガール" (gāru) and "ガールズ" (gāruzu) in use at least in
signage. Obviously they are borrowed from English "girl" and "girls" in turn,
but is either or both of them now considered to be Japanese words, or are they
merely seen as English written in katakana?

If they are now considered to be Japanese words, how do their usages differ
from the native Japanese words for "girl"?

And if both are now considered Japanese can "ガールズ" be considered a plural of
"ガール", especially since Japanese doesn't normally have a grammatical concept
of plurality?
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Is "ガール" (gāru) now considered a Japanese word? What about "ガールズ" (gāruzu)?
Japanese also called ガール as ギャル, but the word ギャル is taken by
blackish/brownish (may be sun-burn or make-ups) girls, see the
[ギャル](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB) on Wikipedia.

So, I guess someone start using ガール as normal girls.

And I think ガールズ comes from something like popular
[東京ガールズコレクション](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3)
(Tokyo Girls Collection) fashion show or ガールズトーク (girls talk).

And also ガール、ガールズ has some good sense about fashionish, stylish, so poeple
might use it just because it is cool (カッコイイ).
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