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To: Daniel Reeves <dreeves &AElig umich.edu>, Peter Binkert <binkert &AElig oakland.edu>
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> 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?