Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — Change the Dictionaries. [ARTICLE]

Change the Dictionaries.

There Is a teacher in the Brooklyn public schools who has an Item of information she thinks may be of Interest to lexicographers. This young woman has just been drilling a class of young hopefuls on the variations of the masculine and feminine forms of nouns. “Now,” said she, “who can give me the feminine of horseman?” Up went the hand of an 11-ycar-old lad. "Well, what Is It, Johnnie?” “Please, ma’am,” he answered, "marelady.”—Mail and Express.