I'm hip, but does "wer/e" by itself rhyme with "there," "here" or "her"? Is
the pl. strong or weak?
In a message dated 2/5/2000 3:16:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< It has sometimes occurred to me during the controversies about
inclusive language that some of the difficulties might have been
circumvented if we had resurrected the word 'wer' when wishing to
refer to males, and kept 'man' in its former unisex sense - a sense
which it retains, actually, in the North East; I have often heard
Sunderland women referring to each other as 'man' which sounds a little
odd to a southern ear.
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