Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-Specific Pronouns (and "ain't") Message-ID: <268@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 21:54:44 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.268 Posted: Thu Jan 17 21:54:44 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 07:49:25 EST References: <914@amdahl.UUCP> <778@druxo.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 8 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2450 net.women:4162 > We could try the construction my two-year-old developed (quite logically, > if not *properly*)--amn't I. :-) Smart kid! That's actually an obsolete form. "Am't" is one, too. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146