fellow and fella

[Jonathan Lighter]

No.

JL

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:33 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca>wrote:

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> On a LinkedIn discussion group I'm in, one poster has used "fellow and
> fella [x]" as apparently intended to be a gender-inclusive variation on the
> adjective. (The [x] is a plural noun.) Have any of you seen this before?
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> James Harbeck.
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