PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - MOD Diversity Chief
View Single Post
Old 1st Jun 2021, 10:09
  #82 (permalink)  
NutLoose
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a thread
Posts: 33,077
Received 2,942 Likes on 1,253 Posts
Here is one, Diversity Chief


c. 1300, "head, leader, captain; the principal or most important part of anything;" from Old French chief "leader, ruler, head" of something, "capital city" (10c., Modern French chef), from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput "head," also "leader, chief person; summit; capital city" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). Meaning "head of a clan" is from 1570s; later extended to headmen of Native American tribes (by 1713; William Penn, 1680s, called them kings). Commander-in-chief is attested from 1660s.
As the head of the Indian tribes and Clans were normally male and French leaders as in Kings were always Male, surely by using that title she is in herself failing to be Diverse!


https://www.etymonline.com/word/chief
NutLoose is offline