Ah, mon, you'd best not be taking your member out. Could get arrested as a pervert. John (laughing hysterically) On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Learned friends, I keep hearing the word "faculty" used to refer to > individual members of a faculty thus, "Ritchie, you wise and learned > faculty, you, what are your thoughts?" Is there possibly a feminist wrinkle > here? Have I blinked and so missed an argument about taking "member" out? > Or is the case just like "media" being used as a single noun, an error that > seems to be winning? > > David Ritchie, > Portland, > Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wordworks.jp/