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From: rancke@diku.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What to call a female wizard?
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 08:29:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 08:29:59 1987
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(You call her "Ma'am"!)

In article <741@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
>In article <3601@udenva.UUCP> agranok@udenva.UUCP (Alexander Granok) writes:
>>Are you looking for (...) the generic
>>term for a female wizard?

>What's wrong with witch? I've always understood that was the normal feminine
>of wizard.

I think a witch is a female warlock (or rather the other way round).
I've never heard of a special word for a female wizard, but how about
"wizardess". Unoriginal perhaps, but they do call a female steward
a stewardess.


   Hans Rancke, University of Copenhagen
          ..mcvax!diku!rancke

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