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The Etymology of "Y2K"
Opponents of nonsexist language show passionate loyalty to principles of etymology and tradition and unexpected respect for grace and style (admittedly frequent victims of inclusion of the feminine pronoun).
He might be seen to have got his final comeuppance at the hands of one correspondent, who wrote at length as follows about the etymology of Cambridge:
Their only idea is that “etymology” is a question of assumption and assertion, founded on guesswork and proclaimed by reiteration and bluster.
American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.