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From: gordon@genrad.UUCP (Gordon Partridge)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Language
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 12:17:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 12:17:33 1983
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If chairman becomes chairperson, policeman becomes policeperson, etc.,
would a woman become a woperson?

A friend of mine at Boeing told me of the time when the personnel manuals
were edited by a word processor to change "man" to person.  There were
subsequently frequent references to personufacturing.

Gordon Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA  01740