Use everyone or everybody instead of 'all people'.

[tzfujimino]

Hello.:-D

Please click on the link and scroll down to 'HELP': http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/person

It says:

Use everyone or everybody instead of 'all people'.

It means 'You can use everyone or everybody [...]', doesn't it? (I first took it to mean 'You must use [...]'.)

I'm sorry if it's a silly question.

 

[Grumpy]

I would take it as "You should use". The only instance I can think of where using "all people" might be preferable to using everyone or everybody is in the context of a poem or song, where it would scan better. For example, there is a verse in a hymn which begins "All people that on earth do dwell..." That was written in the 16th Century, and it sounds much more lyrical than "Everybody who lives on earth..".

 

[Odessa Dawn]

Hello.:-D

Would you, Grumpy, treat the word century like January, Saturday, where you did uppercase it, please?

 

[Rover_KE]

You will see both '16th Century' or '16th century'.

There's no rule about it.