Supposedly, high ranking British Civil Servants play a verbal game where they avoid any mention of the gender of the Prime Minister.*

Equally, Perl people in the know seem to avoid using personal pronouns when discussing Abigail.

On one occasion Abigail left c.l.p.m over this sort of discussion. Perhaps we can ignore this in future or at least not follow up on it.

John.
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* Based on "The Child in Time", by Ian McEwan.