One important influence on our language in the past decade has been the changing role of the women in modern society. There was a time when an unmarried woman was called a spinster. But that was before women went into space in rockets, worked underground in mines, and become managers of corporations. As women entered more and more areas that job titles. For example, a mailman is now a mail carrier, a watchman is a guard, a lineman is a line repairer. And the Man of the Year? Well, she the Newsmaker of the Year.