Word: perperson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Common sense and reality have both been affronted regularly in the anti-discrimination war. The feminist movement's drive to desex nouns and pronouns was definitively dramatized by the 1976 case of Ms. Ellen Cooperman, who unsuccessfully sought to change her legal name to Coo-perperson. But God only knows-if, indeed, He or She does-how much needless fear of words has been generated by the campaign to cleanse public language of slander, denigration and defamation. It has obviously reduced the use of contemptuous epithets, but it has also unnecessarily inflamed some tender sensibilities. Take the heartfelt claim...
...billion raised by the new energy taxes back into the economy in several ways. Some $22.5 billion would be distributed to individuals and corporations by the permanent cuts in income taxes; another $2 billion would go to the people too poor to pay taxes, through the $80-perperson cash grants. State and local governments would get $2 billion of extra revenue-sharing money to help pay their higher fuel costs. Homeowners who invest in insulation, storm windows and doors, and other fuel-saving equipment could deduct 15% of the cost from their tax bills up to a maximum...
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