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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!rigel!evan
  3. From: evan@hpl.hp.com (Evan Kirshenbaum)
  4. Subject: Re: chaps
  5. Sender: news@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (News Subsystem (Rigel))
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.015459.21525@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
  7. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:54:59 GMT
  8. Reply-To: kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com
  9. References: <baron.92.724957187@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: hplerk.hpl.hp.com
  11. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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  13.  
  14. In article <baron.92.724957187@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Baron) writes:
  15. >Can anyone tell me whether the gender neutral use of chaps in the UK
  16. >or elsewhere has met any resistance?
  17.  
  18. I'm confused.  Which gender isn't allowed to wear chaps?
  19.  
  20. :-)
  21.  
  22. Evan Kirshenbaum               +------------------------------------
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