Quiz: Chairman or chairwoman?
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Fri Nov 3 17:16:56 UTC 2006
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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Virtually, Terry
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