At 02:07 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote: > > I > > hope you did > > it on porpoise. > >Sure I did! > >But I didn't know we knew the teacher's sex. I'm pretty sure that Julie said it was a woman. At first Julie referred to her as a 'they', but then later she [Julie] referred to her [the teacher] as a "her" [the teacher]: "I'm thinking the Language Arts teacher may have plied her way with tissues." The decision where to put that period was mind-bending -- refer to rule 3.2.1.a of Mutton Handbook of Style. Paul ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html