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From: berry@zehntel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 04:42:34 EST
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#R:linus:-64100:zinfandel:9300035:177600:690
zinfandel!berry    Feb  7 09:43:00 1984

Holy ****, 'employe' IS in the dictionary (at least the Oxford Universal
on my desk).  It seems that the word is formed from the past participle
of the French verb 'employer', and back when people cared about such 
things, it was 'employe' for male workers and 'employee' for females.
(There should be acute accents on the second 'e' of each word.)
Sort of like fiance and fiancee.  Since English is by and large genderless,
such distinctions have sort of been lost over the years except for 
a few newsmagazine holdouts, it seems.  No-one uses 'naif' instead of
'naive' anymore (nor do they include the umlaut).

Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
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