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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Dividing Line
Message-ID: <182@unc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 16:10:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 16:10:17 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Mar-85 03:36:18 EST
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article Jim Campbell <haddock.384> jimc@haddock.UUCP writes:
>Wow!  Does that make all the women I know over 21 who have never had
>sex girls?  How about all the virgin women who join convents and live
>into their eighties?
>
>I can see you're not really arguing for the validity of this 
>assessment, but I just couldn't let that one go by.

The German word for "girl" is "maedchen".  Similarly, the word is
"maedel" in Yiddish and also several southern German dialects,
"maedje" in Plattdeutsch (a northern German dialect), and
"meisje" in Dutch.  These are all cognates of the English word
"maid" (as in Maid Marian) or "maiden".  All of these can imply
virginity depending upon the context.  I do suppose this meaning
is somewhat archaic.

		Frank Silbermann
		University of North Carolina