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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Fisher...uh...person
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 20:22:42 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- > sandy@halcyon.com (Sandy Fifer) wonders:
- >
- > | What's wrong with using fisher, server, sewer, crafter, etc.? These
- > | words don't sound cumbersome to me.
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- Also be careful who you call a fisher.
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- Fisher: Carnivorous mammal of North America, _martes pennanti_.
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- This is a member of the same genus as the marten (_martes
- americana_), and the sable (_martes zibellina_).
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