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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 04:35:27 GMT
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- In article <BzMxsK.HnF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- # The word "woman" comes from "man". (wif-man or literally "wife of
- # man")
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- Sigh.
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- Now to your ignorance of language in general, and the English
- language, and England, and the BBC, and the queen, we must add your
- ignorance of Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon).
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- Since "wif" meant "woman", and "man" meant "person", "wif-man" meant
- "woman-person". "Wife of man" would be something like "weras wif".
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- David Johns
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