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If we obsessively change all instances of the syllable 'man' to 'person', we have problems with a person called Guy Chapman. Do we call him Person Personperson?

This made me laugh really quite a lot.

The web page in question is http://baptism.co.nz/gram16.html, and he's written other articles on grammar. Being a fully paid up member of the grammar fascists, and a professional editor and proof reader, I enjoyed these anyway. But it was Person Personperson that made me laugh.
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