>>>>>>- freshperson
>>>>>>- Roperson Empire
>>>>>>- foreperson
>>>>>>- Sherperson tank
>>>>>>- Pullperson car
>>>>>>- businessperson
>>>>>>...
>>>>>
>>>>>Brinkpersonship
>>>>>Portugese person-o'-war
>>>>>persondatory
>>>>>persondrake plant
>>>>>epersonate
>>>>>epersoncipate
>>>>
>>>>And now we need a quick search & replace through English dictionaries worldwide :).
>>>
>>>But don't forget. It's more than just dictionary type words. One of my friends is going to have to change his name to Personfred. There will also be confusion between existing words like personage, and the new word personage. Not to mention all those corporations that will have to change their logos to reflect the change to personufacturing. Seers will be talking in terms of opersons. That great play 'Death of a Salesperson' will have to change the name of the lead character to Willie Loperson.
>>>
>>>I'm telling you, the ramifications may well be unpersonageable and we'll all end up in a personstal institution.
>>
>>With all these changes, will I have to start refering to my wife (?) as a woperson. And also, am I just a person then.
>
>No, no. Gender specific references are ok as long as they really mean to be gender specific. you are a man (at least that is my current assumption). Your wife, however, may need a new word. Certainly not woman, but I don't think woperson works either since (another of my assumptions) I doubt your wife is gender neutral. Also female won't work, of course, nor feperson. Maybe fefem? No. That starts to sound too much like a Jack in the Beanstalk thing.
>
>Well, I'm stuck.

Just call a woman a "rib"! Time to duck! :)