Re: Kate Swift died (7-5-2011)

On 2024-05-10, Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:

This quote from the second book is funny:
>
   "Knowing that he and his can be gender neutral, I shall no longer
   feel there is an odd image filtering through something like: 'The
   average American needs the small routines of getting ready for
   work. As he shaves or blow-dries his hair or pulls on his panty
   hose, he is easing himself by small stages into the demands of the
   day.'...How liberating common sense can be."[5]

Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage quotes one Albert
Bleumenthal from the New York State Assembly:

  ... everyone will be able to decide for himself whether or not
  to have an abortion.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de