blogger and blogess

[Wilson Gray]

Do they really spell it as "blogess" as opposed to "bloggess"?

-Wilson

On 11/2/06, William Salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
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> > 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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