--- "B.Moloney" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Elasticus,
>
> The Oxford English Dictionary stretches the meaning of the
> word "man", in one of its uses, to include people,
> regardless of gender. The liturgy is perhaps - dare one say
> it? - both theologically and linguistically sound.
Ah, would that everybody had read the Oxford English Dictionary. There
are those, some of them very vocal, who object to this usage.
Oriens.
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