fellow and fella

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 24 00:03:01 UTC 2012


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

No. But it is kinda cute, though! (I assume that writer was just joking.)

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-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.
-Mark Twain

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