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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women
Subject: Re: Gender-specific neuter pronouns
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 15:37:37 EST
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> Hmmm, did you know that "many" is the Old English for the plural of "man"?

	No it isn't.  The Old English plural of "man" was "menn",
just the same as it is today - it is a reflex of the Indo-European
root "man-" which means "A man".  In most languages its reflex 
means "a person".  

	The word "many" was the word "manig" is Old English.
It is a reflex of the Proto Indo-European word "menegh-", which
meant "copious."

	Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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