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Huh? Is this in place of, say, Unmarried on a form?
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Spinster on a licence? Isn't spinster a very old fashioned word to use on official papers! Unmarried is good word on papers used both for those who are not married yet and those who have been unmarried/divorced.
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Isn't spinster a very old fashioned word to use on official papers!
Bureaucrats tend to be conservative and old-fashioned and stubborn and annoying.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Just wondering about the connection between "wife" and "weave". Did single women do the spinning and married women do the weaving?
Or could the husband and wife be seen as twisted or woven together?
And, back in the day, wīf meant woman without regard to marital status.
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Pooh-Bah
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Bureaucrats tend to be conservative and old-fashioned and stubborn and annoying.
yes...because they can.
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And, back in the day, wīf meant woman without regard to marital status.
much as Ms is today then
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