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[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/2/2006 04:06 PM, Page Stephens wrote:
>What do you call an actress these days, a woman actor or simply an actor?
>
>As far as I can tell the use of a word which denotes the sex of a person is
>going out of style and therefore the use of gender specific words denoting
>the sex of the person is disappearing..

I vote for frosh girls.  Frosh being the form for both singular and
plural (viz. OED2), there is no dilemma.  (And it sounds
frisky.  Even when it's frosh men.)

Joel

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