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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Kate Swift died (7-5-2011)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 17:18:45 +0200
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On 2024-05-10 13:51:17 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:

> 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.

Apart frm "herself", which is probably what I would say, the word Mr 
Blumenthal was avoiding was probably "themself".

-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.