So, I've always just kind of gone along with the Independent Study-invented version of the story for how the term "werf" came about... but a recent discovery has made me wonder... is "werf" not only handy, but etymologically correct?
In Old English, the term for man was "wer" and the term for female was "wif." Put those together, and you get... werf! The perfect replacement for the ambiguously-gendered pronoun! Is anyone else as blown away by this as I am?
(Okay, I guess someone mentioned this on the Board already, but that was 3.5 years ago and I'd never read it until I went looking for it. I actually gleaned this piece of knowledge, as I do most of them, from Dinosaur Comics. It was exciting and I wanted to share, okay?)
