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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 hypocrites
  5. Message-ID: <Bzqv7p.6Fn@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <92358.155839HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:33:24 GMT
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  13. In article <92358.155839HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> HERSCH@auvm.american.edu writes:
  14. :Many hundreds of years ago, the word "woman" evolved from "wif"
  15. :and "man", the latter word at the time carrying no gender information.
  16.  
  17. Sounds plausible to me.  Didn't wyf-man go hand-in-hand with wer-man or
  18. some such masculine form?  man certainly meant then what mankind means
  19. now.
  20.  
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