[Ads-l] Has anyone else heard this turn of P.C. phrase?

Baker, John JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM
Sun Mar 1 19:54:29 UTC 2020


Dan, the “P.C. phrase” was "People assigned _female_ at birth,” per a question raised by Wilson Gray.  W Brewer replied to Wilson’s email but did not include the original question.


John Baker

From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Dan Goncharoff
Sent: Saturday, February 29, 2020 8:16 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Has anyone else heard this turn of P.C. phrase?

Why do you call this PC? This is just a silly song by Al Trace. Am I
missing something?

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 5:17 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com<mailto:brewerwa at gmail.com>> wrote:

> CiS = Mary McGoon (né Ray Goulding): "I'd like to be a cow ..."
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLRLWzRdgQ<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLRLWzRdgQ>
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