Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges From: porges@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: 'woman' as an adjective - (nf) Message-ID: <865@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:52:58 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.865 Posted: Thu Feb 9 23:52:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Feb-84 21:43:36 EST Lines: 16 #R:druxu:-89900:inmet:7300024:000:480 inmet!porges Feb 8 18:30:00 1984 My personal, unverifiable impression is that using "woman" rather than "female" (as in "woman doctor") stems from the following abstract conversation, from about 1970: A: I went to a lady doctor and she said..... B: NO! NO! You don't say "lady" any more, now you say "woman". [Women's room, ....] A: OK, I went to a woman doctor and she said.... -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges