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Subject: "Maven"
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 14:44:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 14:44:15 1984
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From:  Bob Clements 

Dick 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