USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols,though mostly talking about french now

And Rosta wrote:
> "man" and "woman" are unique in pluralizing "men", "women", so the
> resemblance is morphological as well as phonological. Indeed, for
> this reason it is tempting to analyse "woman" as cranberry morph
> "wo-" + morpheme "man".
Except "woman" does *not* include the word "man" in it, at least in my
dialect.  Maybe in others, I don't know.  At most, you could analyze
"woman" as consisting of *"wo" plus "-man" (/m@n/), which has only an
orthographic resemblance to "man" (/m&n/), altho both share the same
plural /mIn/ (or /mEn/ in dialects that don't collapse /I/ and /E/
before nasals)

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