Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols,though mostly talking about french now
| From: | Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 26, 2002, 21:22 |
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The etymology and history of 'woman' may indeed be a compound word wi:f +
man, but for hundreds of years, and certainly in modern English, it is
surely a single morpheme. Otherwise we're all over the place! After all, the
still recognisably compound word 'cowboy' behaves as a single morpheme
barely 150 years after it must originally have been coined, and presumably
so into the far future, when we might have a form like 'koobie' or
something.
Mike
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