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Jigjag

I loved the 'Carpenter/Caprentress' stuff!

Thank you very much for allowing me to question dubious English - or indeed anything else - in your posts. This is, of course, a two-way street - I don't mind any errors or omissions of mine being brought to my notice.

Cleverjo

Thanks. I like actresses and waitresses. It seems wrong when an actress refers to herself as an actor. I cant imagine any waitress would want to be called a waiter, or even a waitron which I agree sounds awful.

malone

Yes I heard a lot of "servers" recently which I think should only apply to tennis, or the computer thing, whatever it is. I had one "server" who said something like, "I am your server Sharon and I am going to wait on you tonight". I should have said, "so you are the waitress" but politeness prevented me. If I go again, I will refer to the female servers as servresses, which seems logical.

Steve
Thanks, I love the traffic light story.

I visited my doctrix who referred me to an orthopaedic surgeoness. At the hospital, the ward brother and all the other nursing staff were very kind and professional.

SW

I love it - clever. If you met a midhusband, hope he was good too

Ha ha!

I had a leaking tap this morning but the plumbress fixed it. The painter and decorator is coming tomorrow but he said he would send his assistant today to strip the wallpaper off the walls. A young woman has just arrived.

"Are you the stripper?", I asked, but she was horrified. "No, I am the strippress" she said.

Skyewalker - wonderful stuff, a great fun read! Mind you, the terms used are exactly the things I'd like to see abolished - female terms for male roles.

Jigjag

I think some words, terms are fine until we suit down and think about them. I don't really like the idea of someone 'waiting' on me, that seems slightly feudal! 'Serving' me isn't much better, of course, but at least there's no problem with the gender there. I struggle with actresses being 'actors', I think it'll be another few generations before that becomes normal.

Amazon offer in my Inbox this morning - books 2, 3 and 4 of "The Dublin Trilogy" (by Caimh McDonnell).

Well, I suppose that they would be Irish!

Grunger

Your domestic tale really plumbed the depths... but I enjoyed it very much!

Chrise

I liked your Amazon tale too.

I heard on the radio today that something was "light miles" away. Eh? I replayed it on the internet to make sure I hadn't misheard.

Also, I remember a CD called The Only Classical CD You'll Ever Need Vol 2.