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From: san@eagle.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Lakoff
Message-ID: <1053@eagle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 13:05:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  1 13:05:32 1983
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Is it really true that the phrase "woman doctor" is more 
prevalent and more respectable than "lady doctor" in American English? 
In British English the phrase "lady doctor" is quite common and 
I, for one, have never heard "woman doctor".