Stamps : Evidencing Language Flux.

Meet Edna Ferber,
Novelist.
Wrote those world wide hits, "Showboat" and "Giant"

Is the word "Authoress" in decline?

I think a lot of gender defining titles are in decline. Either the male version is used for both sexes, like author, or a neutral word is used. i.e. Firefighter rather than fireman. You also used "novellist" which is neutral.
"Stamps: Evidencing language flux" is going on my list of favourite obscure titles....

In any case, "it" looks like my first date.

Sometimes, leaving the past alone is not a bad idea!

Authoress, actress, sculptress. It's like there are no women in the world anymore. *duck*

Thanks for offering support, I thought it was perhaps just me,
another pedantic bore :)
So let this thread be on the record, (and regurgitated in 100 years time)
as those after me can watch which word gains
ascendency ascendancy
of the colour, color?) Grey or Gray

Or ascendancy?

Time for bed here. Night night everyone.

-trix still has its devotees. Amelia Earhart was an aviatrix, any woman who makes a Last Will and Testament can fairly be called a testatrix, and there are a few other -trices that make me smile.

C.

Between a voracious teenage appetite for (what I thought to be) the best in British humor literature ala P.J. Wodehouse, and a definitive proclivity for the oil of bergamot, I would say that Grey has already arrived at a status of ascendancy beyond the pale of the worn and dingy word of "gray". And while I am indeed an American in the fullest sense (hailing from the United States of, and generally hanging out alot in the Central part), this "gray" word seems to give all the indication of blandness of a culture which, while one I appreciate, lacks the historical depth and cultural sophistication of the Old World as I see it.

If you want to see what can happen to a language just look at English. In the Early days of this Country(USA) The English came here with a perfectly good language. We Americans took it ised it and made it our own. Here in the States we speak "American" NOT "English". Proof of this can be found by a short stay in England. This was pointed out to Me in college by My "English" Professor who happened to be from just outside London.

Rod, is she a babe?

...dons bait resisting tin foil hat.

eye of the beholder and all that BeeSee.

If you're looking for babes, this might fit the bill:

http://www.gibraltar-stamps.com/app...ts/pg166.jpg

Wow, a babe from the rock.
I bet the people of Gibraltar were very proud.
Good on 'em!

A more conventional Babe, a real swinger.

If the hair were shorter, she would be a dead ringer for my grandfather on my father's side.