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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
- Message-ID: <12207@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 11:02:11 GMT
- References: <92358.155839HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <BzqupJ.LE8@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- In article <BzqupJ.LE8@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >["wifman"] DID evolve from man. "Man" was gender neutral previously. "wif"
- >was used as a suffix to denote gender.
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- 'Tis an extraordinary suffix that goes before the root. :-)
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- Disclaimer: I use "suffix" as linguists do. The common
- Englishman's mileage may vary.
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