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The random underwear (and socks) thread
pwhodges:
Webster's dictionary puts that meaning before the one that you and I are used to, merely marking it "informal" (and not even that in the big Merriam-Webster's unabridged); so I guess we'll have to suck it up.
The New Oxford American Dictionary marks it "dated", though the American dictionaries do not.
Skewbrow:
May, I apologize. I honestly didn't know that it is a demeaning term. I did guess that it is at least partly incorrect - at least it seems to me that it is most commonly applied to/at institutions that used to be only for male students, but then later reconsidered their admittance policy.
Anyway, I edited my post. Sorry about any loss of peace of mind.
Barmymoo:
I apologise too - it was an overreaction if it is still a legitimate word in US English. But the implications of the word (that women are somehow an addition to the student body) just bother me, especially as I attend a women's college and therefore there is no co-ed about it!
pwhodges:
I don't like the word either - but it's in common use with no stigma attached. Of course the same is true of much other language that could be viewed as undesirable as well!
Lines:
I've only ever heard it referenced to both genders, such as a coed-dorm or coed-sport. I wasn't aware US English meant it also to just refer to women?
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