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From: roy@isieng.UUCP (Roy Wells)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Keywords: Sexual, gender, discrimination,pronouns,language
Message-ID: <792@isieng.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 15:17:04 GMT
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In article <23898@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> wlieberm@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (William Lieberman) writes:
>Someone told me the term "mailman" in Boston was recently changed to 
>"personperson".  I don't believe it, but I bet it's not too far from
>the truth. I suppose if you do a little lexicographic investigation,

No, there is not personperson.  "Mailmen" are now "letter carriers", 
a term no more descriptive or accurate, but much more "gender neutral".