"Spokesperson" offends me. "Spokesman" or "spokeswoman" (as appropriate) are perfectly acceptable.
2008/12/11 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > 2008/12/11 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > > 2008/12/11 Alison Wheeler <[email protected]>: > >> On Thu, December 11, 2008 18:17, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >>> spokesman. > >> > >> "spokesperson" surely ... > > > > Sorry, I use "spokesman" as a non-gender specific term, I probably > > shouldn't do that... > > Interesting, the OED agrees with me (it makes no mention of gender at > all) and gives "1976 Times 21 May 2/4 Mary Whitehouse, spokesman for > the campaign." as one of its citations, so apparently the Times agrees > with me (or, at least, did 30 years ago). But anyway, that's rather > offtopic - I'm happy to use "spokesperson" if "spokesman" offends > people here. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >
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