Firemen or Firefighters?

[Leekbrookgull]

Please,i post with no agenda. I say thanks to those who have lost thier lives at Ringmer. Maybe i am wrong?
To me me you are a FIREMAN POLICEMAN OR AMBULANCE MAN. your sex does not matter to me. Job titles MEAN NOTHING.what you do DOES.

 

[only1robbiereinalt]

the correct term is firefighters

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[Green Cross Code Man]

Why is the correct term 'Firefighter' unless one wishes to blur any biological differences between men and women?

Fireman or Firewoman. Why should job titles not allow for two different genders? After all there are two sexes in the world.

 

[Gazwag]

the correct term is firefighters

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why do ours lives have to be so americanised (note spelt with a S not a Z) its should be firemen and firewomen

 

[Gwylan]

Why on earth would anyone want to say "firemen and firewomen" in preference to "firefighters"? People who like the sound of their own voices I would guess and who love using three words when one would do.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I have ancestors who were firemen. They worked in iron foundries and their job was to ensure that there was enough heat available for the manufacturing process.

Firefighters do a quite different job that is well described in that job title.

 

[Gazwag]

I have ancestors who were firemen.

My dad was a fireman - on steamtrains - he was the one in charge of the fire, putting in the coal, keeping a good head of steam etc, in fact I believe he was fireman on the last steam train out of Brighton station.



But I still call firemen firemen not firefighters

 

[NMH]

What about mankind? The precludes women every time it is said.

Have we come nowhere since the suffragettes?

 

[desprateseagull]

all very nice, brave people. who cares what they are called, so long as they get to your house in time..