Word: chairperson
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...Jessie Sanders, 79, a political pro from South Dakota. The convention's cochairman, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black running for Congress from California, wielded the gavel with muscle, tact and a winning smile. Delegates were careful to address her as "Madam Chairwoman," or, at least once, as "Madam Chairperson." Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York won a small but loyal following for her presidential candidacy. Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a Vassar-educated Texan who ran well for Governor earlier this year, was nominated for Vice President and came in second to Eagleton. On the convention's last night, Jean...
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...