Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxc!chris From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: sexist language/bad attitudes Message-ID: <628@pyuxc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 09:39:27 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxc.628 Posted: Mon Mar 25 09:39:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 05:44:58 EST References: <824@druxo.UUCP> <269@mhuxr.UUCP> <825@druxo.UUCP>, <12080@watmath.UUCP>, <544@hou5g.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 15 Recently, someone posted an article on the acceptability of using "they" in place of "he or she." If anyone has any similar articles, I'd appreciate copies. I'm a technical editor, and I'd like to gather enough evidence to support my dumping the cumbersome "he/she." Send via UNIX mail or to: R. C. Hollenbeck Bell Communications Research Room 3F-152 8 Corporate Place Piscataway, NJ 08854 Thanks.