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Thread #57509   Message #906136
Posted By: Amos
09-Mar-03 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Subject: RE: BS: Nouns as Verbs: 'to summit Everest'
Once upon a time it was held that horses sweated, men perspired, and women glowed. For the same reason I would be highly reluctant to describe a woman as having been spayed! :>) It's a word I associate with pets.

But there is no justification for the coinage of hysterectomized!! Why not a simple construction, such as "underwent a hysterectomy", "had her womb cut out" or more politely, perhaps, "underwent surgery for feminine complications"? It seems to me we don't really need a coinage for everything, and that some things are (and should be) actually dignified by circumlocutions.

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