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From: barb@proper.UUCP (Barbara Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Letter Salutations
Message-ID: <128@proper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 20:25:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 20:25:39 1986
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In article <715@osiris.UUCP>, jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
> 	After working in an office where everyone from the director down
> to the lowliest clerk (me) was female and getting all our mail addressed
> to "Dear Sir" (pretty damned irritating after awhile) I have taken to
> addressing all my correspondence of this nature to "Dear Gentlefolk".

In a similar vein, I often use "Gentlepersons".

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Barbara Petersen                      |   "Oh, I dunno....
{amdahl, qantel, dual}!proper!barb    |   ....call it a hunch."
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