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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: retronyms
Message-ID: <389@ihu1m.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 00:28:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 00:28:55 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> I read somewhere that until about 100 years ago secretaries were
> male, and that there was a great hue and cry when women entered
> the field...
> -- 
> Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.)

Yes, most were male.  Those who were able to operate the then
new-fangled typing machines were called "typewriters".
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