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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Name your sex! #27942 05/01/01 12:52 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA G Geoff old hand Geoff old hand G Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 819 Portland,Oregon, USA Interesting stuff, this! I've long associated woman with the OE wif-man, or wife-man, so there seems to be an ancient suggestion of chattel therein. Call me a chauvinist swine if you will, but I've long considered man to be non-gender-specific in certain contexts. As for girl, did it not originally mean any young person? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Name your sex! of troy 05/01/01 12:26 PM Re: Name your sex! Faldage 05/01/01 12:50 PM Re: Name your sex! wpegues 05/02/01 01:47 PM Re: Name your sex! wwh 05/02/01 02:29 PM Re: Name your sex! rodward 05/02/01 03:52 PM Re: Name your sex! Geoff 05/01/01 12:52 PM Re: Name your sex! 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