Goody two shoes

[Joel S. Berson]

Wilson, ask Garson -- he's the person who quoted "Mistress mayoress".

Joel

At 3/1/2014 04:04 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> quoted:
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>She's not a female mayor, but merely the *wife* of the mayor, right? There
>was (is?) a problem in Russian with the naming of women in professions
>traditionally reserved to men in those cases in which the traditional
>feminine form of the word for a person engaged in that profession named the
>wife of a man in that profession and did not name a woman in that
>profession, e,g,  _doktorsha_ "doctor's wife, 'mistress doctoress'." There
>was a note about this problem in the Army Language School textbook, back in
>the '50's.
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>Maybe Victor will bring me up to date.
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