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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sexist language
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Date: 24 Nov 88 08:23:59 GMT
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In article <3366@newton.praxis.co.uk> mph@praxis.co.uk (Martin Hanley) writes:
>Sorry, but perSON is not allowed either - it implies a male
>descendant. (The word should, of course, be perkin  :-)

No, that doesn't work either, because "Perkin" reminds one of "Elmer"
and Elmer is patently a male name.