gordon@genrad.UUCP (Gordon Partridge) (08/15/83)
If chairman becomes chairperson, policeman becomes policeperson, etc., would a woman become a woperson? A friend of mine at Boeing told me of the time when the personnel manuals were edited by a word processor to change "man" to person. There were subsequently frequent references to personufacturing. Gordon Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA 01740
jim@grkermit.UUCP (Jim Morton) (08/15/83)
no no no NO! not "woperson", it contains the word "son", a male derivative. The correct word to refer to the child bearing member of the human race is "woperit" !!