[Ads-l] _co-ed_: obsolete?

[Wilson Gray]

> naked co-ed volleyball:

rude, crude, and in the nude or rough, tough, and in the buff

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coincidentally, Allan Metcalf has just written about the obsolescence of
> "coed" for the Chronicle:
>
> https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/04/24/
> vanished-from-campus-language-the-coed/
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> >
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