Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!clements@bbn-cd.arpa From: clements@bbn-cd.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: "Maven" Message-ID: <12434@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 14:44:15 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12434 Posted: Tue Aug 14 14:44:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:17:17 EDT Lines: 11 From: Bob ClementsDick Binder says "A maven is the female counterpart of a master ...". I say "Foo". And my Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary agrees. It says: Maven or mavin n [Yiddish meyvn, ... fr Heb l'havin to understand](1952): one who is experienced or knowledgable Nothing about "female". /Rcc