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Old 09-12-2009, 01:23 PM   #5530
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Originally Posted by Patricia View Post
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
... and Dickens uses "female" as a noun very commonly, eg:

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...where the waitress, a bouncing young female of forty, ....
"Bleak House", Ch. 20.

Where did you get such a strange idea from, Nate?
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