Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!druxo!nap From: nap@druxo.UUCP (Parsons) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-Specific Pronouns (and "ain't") Message-ID: <778@druxo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:45:45 EST Article-I.D.: druxo.778 Posted: Fri Jan 11 10:45:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:50:54 EST References: <914@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2372 net.women:4041 < I actually use "Aren't I?". I only use "Am I not?" when I want to < sound pompous. < -- < Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam We could try the construction my two-year-old developed (quite logically, if not *properly*)--amn't I. :-) Nancy Parsons AT&T ISL Denver, CO druxo!nap