Giving credit where it's due

In my post about my Thanksgiving adventures, I used the word "chyck" without properly attributing it. Credit goes to my friend Sarah, from whom I learned the term (though I'm not sure if she is the person who originally invented it).

The spelling of chyck with a Y is a light-hearted parody of those feminists who believe that women should be spelled womyn (or something like that) to escape the notion that women are awkwardly prefixed versions of men. You know, womyn, instead of "whoa men!" -- this being my impression of primordial man's reaction to discovering the allures of feminity for the first time.

You hardly ever hear women called dames or broads any more, but chick has stuck around, mostly as a playful term that most of us don't find offensive. (as in chick flick) But, as Sarah would say, "That's chick with a Y."