| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 873 |
| Total number of notes: | 22329 |
Please can someone explain to an ignorant English person (from DEC
UK) what SO stands for?
I have deduced that it means "other half", as an alternative to boy/
girlfriend, husband/wife etc and I have been wracking my brains to
work out what the initials stand for, but haven't come up with anything
sensible yet.
Please excuse me if this has already been explained in a previous
note.
Happy Christmas/Seasons Greetings to everyone
Janet
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| 617.1 | SUPER::HENDRICKS | The only way out is through | Thu Dec 24 1987 07:44 | 14 | |
Hi Janet.
It has been discussed before, and you'll no doubt find it if you
keep reading the old notes in this conference.
Until then, though, it usually means "significant other" and serves
as a gender-free, non-ageist way of describing a person one is in
a primary relationship with!
Somewhere in the old notes there are some alternate suggestions
for SO which are pretty funny, but I can't find them to point you
there at the moment.
Holly
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| 617.2 | Some of us prefer SO = "Special One" | GOSOX::RYAN | Equal Opportunity Noter | Thu Dec 24 1987 13:21 | 0 |
| 617.3 | SSDEVO::CHAMPION | Buttercup | Thu Dec 24 1987 16:29 | 7 | |
There's more in note 464, if you're interested.......
:-)
Carol
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| 617.4 | BEING::MCANULTY | I dunno... | Mon Dec 28 1987 12:24 | 5 | |
Strike-Out..... M- | |||||
| 617.5 | Sorry, strike-out is spelled "K" :-) | DSSDEV::JACK | Marty Jack | Fri Jan 01 1988 16:21 | 0 |
| 617.6 | Ahh - I understand now! | CHEFS::RUMBELOW | Mon Jan 04 1988 08:00 | 2 | |
Thank you, I'm now enlightened. I like Special One - I think I'll
use that in future.
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