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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Frosh (was Re: Sexist language (was...
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:05:00 GMT
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- In article <BzqsMF.Jnv@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- :>terms, many of which have since fallen out of use even here. Your idea
- :>that we were intentionally waging war on the language is just silly.
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- :Have you heard of Noah Webster?
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- Errr.... yes - Noah Webster is almost universally acknowledged as one of
- the silliest people ever to lend his name to a dictionary; what's your point?
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