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From: jeanette@randvax.UUCP (Jeanette Haritan)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Letter Salutations
Message-ID: <165@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 13:31:31 EST
Article-I.D.: randvax.165
Posted: Wed Mar 26 13:31:31 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 04:48:05 EST
References: <286@spp3.UUCP> <715@osiris.UUCP> <128@proper.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeanette@rand-unix.UUCP (Jeanette Haritan)
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Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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In article <128@proper.UUCP> barb@proper.UUCP (Barbara Petersen) writes:
>
>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".
>
I remember an incident where I typed a letter to an unknown gender.  My
previous boss had written "Dear Sir".  Instead, I typed "Dear
Gentleperson", whereupon my boss scratched the salutation and re-wrote
"Dear Gentlemen".  Because he signed my paychecks I carried the battle no
further, however, from that point on, he left the salutation line blank,
allowing me to do as I pleased (softie that he was 8*}  ).


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