Heard on The Jud es: "bartend(e)ress"

[Bill Palmer]

How is "waitress" regarded? or "Priestess"?

has the "-ix" ("avaitrix", "administratix") suffix completely disappeared
from usage?

Bill Palmer

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> No doubt "chairess" never made the grade because it sounds dangerously
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> "choress" ('woman who does chores') or "charess" ('woman who burns
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> the end, all the problems of the world are surely related in some way
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> merger of nonhigh back vowels in America.
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> In a message dated 1/25/09 1:25:51 PM, Berson at ATT.NET writes:
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>> At 1/25/2009 01:08 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>> >"Headmaster" is not a word I use commonly, and I am not sure how many
>> >wom=
> en
>> >still call themselves "Headmistresses," but I would expect it is a=20
>> shrinking
>> >number, given the sexual connotations of "mistress". Of course, there
>> >are
>> >portions of modern culture for which both both "headmaster" and
>> >"headmistress" sound
>> >primarily like porn-film titles.
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>> There is "head of school".=A0 (There is also "chair" for "chairman" or
>> "chairwoman".)
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