2008/12/11 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > 2008/12/11 Alison Wheeler <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, December 11, 2008 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> spokesman. >> >> "spokesperson" surely ... > > Sorry, I use "spokesman" as a non-gender specific term, I probably > shouldn't do that...
Interesting, the OED agrees with me (it makes no mention of gender at all) and gives "1976 Times 21 May 2/4 Mary Whitehouse, spokesman for the campaign." as one of its citations, so apparently the Times agrees with me (or, at least, did 30 years ago). But anyway, that's rather offtopic - I'm happy to use "spokesperson" if "spokesman" offends people here. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
