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[quote=Anonymous]I am thinking that back when it was regular for middle-class to have help, it was a regular thing to refer to the female help as "she" because the servant/maid didn't rate having her actual name uttered. So the wives/mothers who were not in those jobs, and only slightly higher up the ladder, wished to differentiate themselves, and latched on to this weird and bastardized "etiquette" rule. And then passed it down to frustrated women in the next generation.[/quote]
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