Quiz: Chairman or chairwoman?

[Terry Irons]

I like the idea of reviving "wer" for male, allowing "man" to become
neuter.  But to do so, I would argue the need to recover "wife" for
female and to revive the husbonda/husbonde oppositions indicating
marital status, as espous- in Spanish.

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Virtually, Terry
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Terry Lynn Irons        t.irons at morehead-st.edu
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