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Originally Posted by j.p.s
In fairness, there might be a lot of people with not good memories of exasperated teachers starting an admonishment to a naughty class with "People".
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Addressing a group of people as "people" is actually common here (I mean the Estonian equivalent, of course) and not offensive in the least. Teachers don't use it much, or at least they didn't when I went to school. I had no idea the word might have unpleasant memories for former students in English. Live and learn!