Blinken warns staff not to say “manpower”, “you guys”, even son or daughter.
I’m over all that stuff: while I dutifully taught myself long ago to refer to “the chair”, I draw the line at personpower, so “manpower” and “man the barricades} it is. And “you guys” is certainly used as gender non-specific.
Peter Isaac pointed out in his book ‘The New Gobbledygook’ we published 20 years ago that “man” comes from the Latin “manus” for hand and does not necessarily imply a male is the one holding a bat or chair. But Leftists are a dim lot.
Blinken warns staff not to say “manpower”, “you guys”, even son or daughter.
I’m over all that stuff: while I dutifully taught myself long ago to refer to “the chair”, I draw the line at personpower, so “manpower” and “man the barricades} it is. And “you guys” is certainly used as gender non-specific.
As a lover and previous player of cricket I hate “batter”, batsman is what I use still – it means manager of the bat.
Peter Isaac pointed out in his book ‘The New Gobbledygook’ we published 20 years ago that “man” comes from the Latin “manus” for hand and does not necessarily imply a male is the one holding a bat or chair. But Leftists are a dim lot.