On Jul 3, 2011, at 4:51 AM, Monica Hall wrote: > Or American? Do you refer to Gynocology in the States?
I rarely refer to gynecology, regardless of what state I'm in, and I would definitely avoid the word in Utah, especially on a Sunday. I sometimes refer to "my wife's OB guy." You might be interested to know that the The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edition (1968) p. 632, defines "gyno-" as "a learned borrowing from Greek meaning 'female,' 'woman,' used in the formation of compound words [e.g.] gynophore." So it appears you're just insufficiently learned, just like the rest of us. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
