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   Peter Johnson to G6JPG@255soft.uk   
   Re: When (and why?) did "batchelor" and    
   16 Oct 23 17:27:04   
   
   From: peter@parksidewood.nospam   
      
   On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:16:00 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >   
   >I still wonder _why_ they imposed those terms to replace single   
   >man/woman though, which is very clear! (OK, I suppose it removes the   
   >ambiguity that a widow[er] is single, but I think widow/er were in use   
   >earlier.)   
      
   Perhaps they were terms in common use.   
      
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