Just looked at my subject line and it occurred to me: maybe it's an
acronym.
> I ask because I believe the etymology of WIMP is from WIMPLE and
> that, like SISSY (from SISTER), it originally was a way to say
> 'Don't act like a woman."
Woman In Man's Personage?
-- Russ
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