blogger and blogess

[William Salmon]

> At 4:06 PM -0500 11/2/06, hpst at earthlink.net 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..

However, it seems pretty common for a female blog writer to be referred
to as a "blogess".  This feminine form is nowhere near as common as
"blogger", but many female blog writers do make the distinction.

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