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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: Sexist language
  5. Message-ID: <BzquII.69o@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <1992Dec15.183449.21038@news.eng.convex.com> <12151@scott.ed.ac.uk> <38018@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:18:16 GMT
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  13. In article <38018@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
  14. :maybe I'd suggest that you are surrounded by a higher percentage of
  15. :pedants there at Edinburgh than are generally extant in the
  16. :population.
  17.  
  18. That's probably true :-)
  19.  
  20. btw was that a remarkably precise use of the word 'extant' or were you just
  21. using the phrase wrongly as an elegant variation of 'than generally exists'?
  22. [or perhaps even as a circumlocution to avoid the problem of number agreement
  23. with 'percentage'/'pedants' and 'exists'/'exist'?]
  24.