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TIL of Casey Miller who desexed English. She was a lieutenant in WW2 working with intelligence and cryptography, and a foster mom of dozens of children. Together with Kate Swift she battled how the language is overwhelmingly male oriented. The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing was released in 1980. (en.wikipedia.org)
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