Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Proposed, and abandoned as ridiculous. The term is "sage-femme" for both
> sexes. Just have to get used to it :)) .
English gets by quite fine with male midwives, too.  :-)  I don't know
if anyone's ever suggested "midhusband", but it would sound pretty
ridiculous to most people.  (And would have even less etymological logic
than "sage-homme", too :-))

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