Heard on The Judges: "bartend(e)ress"

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

I agree with Larry that "barmaid" and "bartender" have different meanings. But why not just "bartender"? The -ess morpheme is still (unfortunately) conventional in "actress" but not needed elsewhere.
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Spoken by Judge Joe Brown:

"Oh. She was the_bartend(e)ress_ at a bikini bar."


There are a lot of us more-mature men who are unable to get ready for
the replacement of "barmaid" by "bartender" and who are, therefore,
unconsciously forced to try to do something about it.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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