attributive freshman
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Nov 2 22:59:02 UTC 2006
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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