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From: cwb@cbneb.UUCP (Bill Brown)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: summary of non-sexist terms for "gentlemanly"
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Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 09:01:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 10 09:01:19 1984
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Gentles isn't a real word?  My dictionary indeed lists gentle (n.), but
seems to limit its meaning to a person of gentle birth.  While gentleman
seems to be commonly used primarily to describe one with "proper"
behavior, its primary definition refers to gentle birth.  Perhaps it
is not stretching the meaning of gentle too much to use it in place
of gentleperson.