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persons of gender.CLEAR AS MUD! Which gender?!?!?!?!?! Re: "guys" Rod and I had discussed this at length previously by PM. From that, and reading these comments, I've now given up trying to explain it. It's all about context, and maybe the accepted uses are regional, and as long as I can understand my friends (both guy friends and girl friends), and they can understand me, I now am officially giving up trying to explain it to anyone!    
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Bean wonders: CLEAR AS MUD! Which gender?!?!?!?!?!
In standard Germanic grammar compound words take the gender of the last element in the compound. Since man, the English word for human being, irrespective of sex, is grammatically masculine, both sex specific compounds, woman and wapman (no longer used, since it is assumed that to be fully human one must be male) are masculine gender.
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Until Betsy has a chance to pack up her whips and chains.. there are plenty of us around who can readily get to where you live-- a beat you to an inch of your life for that little comment Dave! You really must like like to be punished! i can just see, sitting there, grinning from ear to ear-- as gleeful as cat with little yellow canary feathers all about your mouth!Betsy--just give us the word-- ( or are you looking forward to it so much you don't want to share the pleasure? --perfectly understandable!We'll have to have an on line "shower" for Betsy and make sure she has all instruments of torture! i am willing to contribute my straight jacket..i'd offer the handcuffs, but i've lost the key..and yes, i seriously own these things!
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Ms. Ledasdottir is willing to contribute her straight jacket.
Won' do ya no good. Betsy oney wears crooked jackets.
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Oh-- but i expected Betsy might want to outfit you in the jacket-- and straighten you out!
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and straighten me out
I ain' goin' there.
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and straighten me out
I ain' goin' there.
Too late.
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and straighten me out
I ain' goin' there.
Too late.
Make mine strait up.
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... no matter how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll ..."??
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how charged with punishments the scroll
Ain' nobody punishin *my scroll.
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