Quiz: Chairman or chairwoman?

Fri Nov 3 13:20:13 UTC 2006

Only if the werewolf is virtuous . . . .

--Charlie
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>Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 05:06:40 -0800
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Quiz: Chairman or chairwoman?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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>But that would make "werewolf" sexist. Or is it already ?
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>  JL

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>Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>Let's simply spread the use of the English equivalent of Latin _vir_, still alive only in "werewolf," as the opposite of "woman," leaving "man" to mean "human being," as "homo" originally meant in Latin.
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>-Wilson

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