From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!bts
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: genderless usage
Article-I.D.: unc.3661
Posted: Thu Jul  8 16:58:27 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 04:03:32 1982


Discussions of how language ought to be are interesting, but
standard  usage is  the real authority.   How many genderless
substitutes do you hear in everyday speech.   In Chapel Hill,
many restaurants refer to  their servers as "waitpersons". (I
know several places where it is spelled that way on the menu.)
Is that common  anywhere else?   What other examples can you
provide?
			Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
			(...duke!unc!bts)