August 30, 2000
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Even before my initial jolt of brown liquid fuel, I’d like to share my first thought of the morning. The word doyen is used to describe an expert or authority on some subject who is generally female. Even though the word itself is not gender specific, I have only come across a couple of examples of it being used to describe males. For example, both the comfortably masculine Terence Conran and the increasingly Yanni-esque Kai Krause are referred to as “design doyens”. Is it just my own preconception that the word “doyen” sounds effeminate? When you get right down to it, it’s more like the sound that an cartoon anvil makes bouncing off Wile E. Coyote’s head — doiinnng…
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