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From: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what to call a female wizard?
Message-ID: <594@zen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 15:46:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: zen.594
Posted: Wed Apr 22 15:46:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 04:26:29 EDT
References: <258@root44.root.co.uk>
Reply-To: frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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Keywords: witchy wordsmithy
Summary: some new words?

In article <258@root44.root.co.uk> nga@root44.UUCP (Nick Armitage) writes:
>now a witch is female and a warlock is a male thought i -
>but what the hell is a female wizard????

Since I can't find any authoritative ideas in the books on my desk
(not exactly a large cross-section of necromantic bibliographia), I 
thought I'd make up some which, even if etymologically inept, at
least sound right.  So, how about:

	gynolock   ...?

No?  Okay, maybe:

	wizette    ...?

That's better, but brings to mind all these teenage witches bopping around on
broomsticks, cheering old Baalzebul on.  Possibly:

	thaumaturgyne	...?

Too much of a mouthful, really, and a bit too obscure to catch on with yuppie 
prestidigitators.  So I suggest:

	wizatrix!

The word you've been waiting for to target all the up-to-the-minute
female magickers out there; nicely punnish, too.

[You can tell I'm taking this seriously, can't you? :-)]

>nick
>

Wordy Frank.			[frank@zen.uucp<->..!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!frank]