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From: brian@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: what to call a female wizard?
Message-ID: <34889246.c4b0@apollo.uucp>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 23:06:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.34889246.c4b0
Posted: Mon Apr 27 23:06:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 01:44:06 EDT
References: <258@root44.root.co.uk>
Reply-To: brian@apollo.UUCP (Brian R. Holt)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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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.  i asked
>several male wizards who  happened to be to hand and also
>a female wizard (but i don't know what i should call her).
>
>now a witch is female and a warlock is a male thought i -
>but what the hell is a female wizard????
>
>any replies would put  four wizards (one female)  out  of
>their agony..

Since "witch" comes from "wicce" and "wicca", meaning respectively, female
and male practitioners of the Craft, I and my fellow wicca call ourselves
witches.                                             

Likewise, since "wizard" comes from the same stem, my female Unix guru friends
call themselves wizards.

Who cares whether or not a wizard has all of per chromosomes intact?

                =brian
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