pronouns gone mad

[Shapiro, Fred]

And it is worth noting that the evidence indicates that it was a verb before it was a noun.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Re: pronouns gone mad

At 5/8/2014 05:33 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

>When did 'peeve' transform into a verb??
>
>DanG

1901.

Joel



>On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I've already peeved about this, a couple or three years ago. I came across
> > it in an academic paper by an MD who alternated between "he" and "she" as
> > the pronoun for "baby," when he could simply have used "it," the sex of the
> > baby being of no consequence, needless to say.
> >
> > As for Arden, it - "Arden" is too unisex for me to make a decision; even
> > "Wilson" is unisex, anymore - is an embarrassment to us cat-lovers.
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> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > God forbid your gendered pronouns make you into an unwitting sexist.
> > >
> > > Arden Moore of Yahoo! today:
> > >
> > > "If you need a sign it is time to trim your cat's nails, nothing is
> > clearer
> > > than when he perches on your lap, purrs and starts kneading your thighs
> > > with her front paws. But this is also a sign of affection. Experts say
> > that
> > > this action beckons your adult cat back to a safe, welcoming memory when
> > > she was nuzzling his mother for milk as a newborn kitten. He is being
> > > affectionate and a bit nostalgic. "
> > >
> > >
> > > Back in the eighties I had one or two freshman who did this - out of
> > > thousands - before being corrected.
> > >
> > > Now it's a  bylined Web correspondent.
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