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The builders’ merchants have a “no reversing without a banksman” sign. What’s the gender neutral equivalent? “No reversing without a banker”?
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Wierdly, istr that both kinds of banks have different etymological roots. Not that this impacts on your question but non-cognates which are homophones and homographs are discombobulating.
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They sound like they'd reverse the charges.
I mean obviously banksbod. From Wiktionary, USian apparently has 'spotter'?
Aus/NZ apparently has 'dogman' for this sort of rôle (at least as regards cranes specifically), sometimes 'dogger'. Perhaps we shouldn't try to import that one.
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I've noticed lots of industrial signs are starting to say "staff" rather than either "men" or "workers".

I quite like Bankstaff, sounds like a minor Shakespearean role.

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@chiffchaff How do you refer to just one of them? "No reversing without a bankstave", maybe. Like 'knave'.
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@womump Ah yes, Black Rod never has that problem, do they? stave sounds excellent to me.!
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Alexandra Lanes
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@kæt I use “bod” but I accept that’s likely to remain an idiolectal quirk!
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I do like bod. "folk" would be quite nice if it didn't have an embarrassing cognate in German.
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@chiffchaff I don't think that's enough to disqualify it for use in English.
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@chiffchaff Bod was my second choice after "human" which has an obvious failure case in "post-human".
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@molybdomantic Post-Bod: When the Milkshake Runs Dry. The Commissioning of Childrens Television in the late 1980s.
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@sparrowsion I thought that too, although it doesn't solve for gender-neutral language. (Related to 'stevedore'?)
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@sparrowsion @womump I thought spotter, like in a gym
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