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Re: OT: Gender Bending Moro

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, April 3, 2005, 8:40
While reflecting about the overwhelming amount of physical work inherent in
making breakfast, a somewhat un-feministic possible explanation for the Moro
patterning struck me - might the "girl" word originally have meant "child", and
had its meaning restricted in the singular but not in the plural?

                                                       Andreas