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[OK, my apologies for blocking the link above. Never was much good at rules. My thought process was to respond to chairman (chair-man is already a portmanteau) with glass-ceiling. That is because the word chairman is not often now acceptable except in direct reference to a male person in the chair. Chairperson has supplanted it (quite rightly). So my association (which wasn't forced) was glass-ceiling (itself an object like a chairman) as words like chairman when used for all chair people are themselves constitutive of glass-ceilings. Yesterday in some paper I read that May having broken through the glass ceiling to become PM has now found herself faced with a glass-cliff - a new association. But rules are rules - sorry.]

jaywalker Wrote:

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its ok, I use words loosely, you are right to police everything. But I guess the sense was clear nonetheless? It was not an arbitrary choice of words.


Oh dear, now I've offended you. The thing is when you 'use words loosely' but not arbitrarily that can make it a bit tricky to understand what you actually do mean - so not sure I did get it at the time, but water under the bridge and we're on another page now.


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