Monday, February 22, 2010

Gender neutrality

Letter 06:

From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article759305.ece


December 21, 2006

Personable

Sir, In seeking a name for his androgynous snowman, Robert Vincent is not the only one to struggle with gender-neutral language (letter, Dec 20). Some years ago in Auckland there was a lawyer by the name of Guy Chapman. In order to avoid offending his colleagues, it was suggested he might be known instead as Person Personperson.

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