Message Number: 214
From: Nathan Binkert <binkertn Æ umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:27:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: request for linguist...
> Btw, am I the only to whom "woman" or "women" used as an adjective is like
> fingernails on a blackboard?	Like "woman governor"?	Could our resident
> linguist comment on this?  Is it new?  It sounds utterly wrong to my ear.
> But I suppose what really bothers me about it is that it's not symmetric.
> You can't say "man governor".  (Or even "man nurse".)

My dad is a professor of linguistics actually.	Like to comment dad?