Date:    Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:32:40 -0600
<br>From:    Dennis Baron  debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Mellon Grant
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<br>Fred,
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<br>If you come across any discussions of gender neutral, or epicene pronouns, let
<br> me know. I still maintain a database of forms. There was some discussion of
<br> them in the 1880s in literary journals in the US, but what I've found was
<br> through sheer luck, as the indexing is not very thorough, and certainly wasn't
<br> electronic.
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<br>Dennis
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<br>At 04:37 PM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
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<br> I have recently received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for
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<br> research utilizing the JSTOR electronic journal archive, which allows
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<br> users to search journals going back as far as 1884, to find early uses of
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<br> words and phrases.  I would welcome suggestions of interesting terms to
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<br> investigate.  The terms should be of a sort likely to occur in
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<br> economics, political science, history, sociology, education,
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<br> Asian studies, philosophy, mathematics, or ecology journals.
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