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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, [log in to unmask] writes: << 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. >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%