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Thread #125221   Message #2774824
Posted By: MGM·Lion
27-Nov-09 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Usage: -ess suffix for female operatives
Subject: RE: BS: Usage: -ess suffix for female operatives
", if we defer to the expertise of Flanders and Swann, which of course we should:"

Indeed we should NOT — they were both at Oxford.