[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Laurence Horn]

Obsolete, or at least obsolescent, as a noun, not as an adjective.  Note too that the noun, like “blonde”, denotes just women with blond hair, while the adjective is not so restricted:

noun: co-ed
	• 1.
a female student at a co-educational institution.

adjective: co-ed
	• 1.
(of an institution or system) co-educational. 


So, co-ed soccer, co-ed dance tryouts, co-ed institution, naked co-ed volleyball: sí “a coed”, “coeds”, etc.: no.

LH


> On Apr 20, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Narrator providing background WRT UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College:
> 
> "The female students are called 'co-eds'."
> 
> Well, of course. Everybody knows that "Betty Co-ed has lips of red for
> Harvard," even though, during the years in which the relevant song was
> popular, there were no co-eds at Harvard.
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
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