[Ads-l] Of age (P.S.)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> the traditional euphemism “of a certain age”


Isn't the traditional euphemism "a _woman_ of a certain age"?


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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