Word: chairperson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving briskly on to the nouns, the "Manglish" reformers have been attacking all the words derived from man, master, father and the like, usually proposing neuter or feminine alternatives. Thus titles such as "chairperson" and "Congressone," words like "sportsoneship," "herstory" and "spokesone" could someday-if the feminists have their way-become part of the language. Some of the suggestions seem absurd-having the milk delivered by the milkone, for example, or changing hurricane to hissicane (because women do not like to be associated with destructive storms...