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Subject: Re: what to call a female wizard?
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 13:58:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlvd.287
Posted: Wed Apr 22 13:58:48 1987
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References: <258@root44.root.co.uk>
Reply-To: caag@pyr-a.UUCP (Crispin Goswell)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Division, U.K.
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In article <258@root44.root.co.uk> nga@root44.UUCP (Nick Armitage) writes:
>i was wondering what you call a  female  wizard.

There is an SF novel by John Varley called Wizard, in which the wizard
referred to by the title is female. (Second of the Titan trilogy).

This suggests that the female of Wizard is ``Wizard''.

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