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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Animal Sexist Language
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 19:11:44 EST
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Isn't werewolf a sexist term.  After all were is the historic English term
for a male man.  It is cognate with the Latin word uir (meaning male man
or hero).  From the Latin word uir, English receives words like virtue and
veracity (uerus, the Latin adjective for true is related to uir).


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                    Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo

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