Quiz: Chairman or chairwoman?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Consider it done.

  JL

Terry Irons <t.irons at MOREHEADSTATE.EDU> wrote:
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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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