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Old 09-12-2009, 09:48 AM   #5522
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Purcell's song, "What can we poor females do?" is 17th-century; so there's a long history of using "female" as a noun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvWSOF5yiQ
That is interesting, but can you show a continuous use from then til now? I ask becuase without showing a use in the years between then an equally likely argument would be that the word female was used as a noun then and then stopped being used as a noun. In this case, what we are seeing now would be a shift in the usage.
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