From: glen mccready To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:03:46 -0400



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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:35:02 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: My Grammar is a Dame?

Forwarded-by: "Daniel V. Klein" <dvk@lonewolf.com>
Forwarded by zimmerma@tartan.com (Rob Zimmermann)

The New Yorker issue of 10 Jul 1995 has a cute squib on page 33, quoting
the output from the grammar checker in Microsoft Word for Windows in
response to the sentence, "I graduated from the University of Notre Dame."

  Sexist expression.  Avoid using Dame except as a British title.

The New Yorker's traditional retort was quite worthy:

  They don't call them P.C.s for nothing.