blogress

Ronald Butters ronbutters at AOL.COM
Sun Mar 11 03:06:00 UTC 2012


Huh? Actor: Actress = Blogger: Blogress.

A female blog might be a blogette (as in Rockettes, majorette, bvachelorette), though admittedly a blogette could also be a little/short blog (cf. kitchenette, cigarette, affairette).

On Mar 10, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> On 3/10/2012 10:09 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>>> In passing, "blogress" has an added appeal for me -- a hint of anti-progress.
>>
>> I'm going to have to pay closer attention--I thought the term way
>> "blogess" not "blogress".
>
> A blogess for me would be (if anything) a female blog rather than a female blogger.
>
> LH
>>
>> I have no idea what that means.
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