On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
If the word in question is in /usr/share/dict/words
Big "if", it turns out.
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Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular form of the word doesn't show up, which means that Kripa's approach, using inflection to pluralize singular nouns, is a better approach than I had considered.
Clearly "m**********ss" is feminine and singular and I think that "m**********s" does have a masculine connotation.
It's much less ambiguous than this.
Also, the words are shorter, and probably more common.
Though, in a way, the definition is basically along the same lines :)
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