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Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

Subject: Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:58:51 -0800


Paul DuBois wrote:

Perhaps. But when I recently got my new OED, I immmediately checked
and was immensely relieved to find that it does not have an entry
for "alot".

That's probably because the OED works from instances of usage in permanent records. I think that, for "alot" to be included in the OED, one of its readers would have to find an example in a professional publication in which it was clear that the word was not a misprint or a typo, but deliberately used. That's not likely to happen.


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References:
Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?: From: Kirsten Zerbinis
Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?: From: Bruce Byfield
Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?: From: Paul DuBois

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