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ation movement and the improving of women’s status, the ***ism in English language have desalinated. Two ways are used to eliminate the ***ist English, they are: language strategy and social reform. A. Language Strategies Eliminating the ***ist language is to apply standard language, and populate the neutral words and expressions, and avoid the masculine words in the communication. 1. Population of Neutral Words and Expressions The most important thing to erase the ***ism in English language is to spread the neutralization of words and expressions, the neutralization of them is to stop the generation of the ***ist words with “man” as their suffix and the usages of the ***ist job titles, to populate the usages of affix “person” to replace the words with “man”, such as chairperson replaces chairman, mailperson replaces mailman, salesperson replaces salesman, etc. It’s a new trend to spread neutral words and use the gender-free words. Such as the words teacher, officer, dealer, coach, child, clerk, politician, leader, tutor, writer, and expert, etc. and try to avoid the words ending with suffix “man”. For instance, use firefighter instead of fireman, supervisor instead of foreman, and seller instead of salesman, and so on. 2. Avoiding of the Generalization of Masculine Word “He” One of the most difficult problems is the lack of a singular personal pronoun with which to refer to one person whose *** is unknown or irrelevant. Traditionally “he” has been used, with “his” as the possessive, but the use of “his” is open to the same objection as the use of man. The solutions are: first, changing to a plural and use “they” and “their” for the singular, so change the sentence: “if a student can't be in class, he'll have to do the work in his own time” to: “If a student can't be in class, they'll have to do the work in their own time”. Another example: “Anyone who wants to go to the game should bring his money tomorrow”, this one is ***ist, and people should revise it as “anyone who wants to go to the game should bring their money tomorrow”. Second, the third person plural pronouns “they”, “them”, “their” not only refer to the plural, but the single. For instance: “everyone should bring their books tomorrow” is equal to “everyone should bring his or her book tomorrow” In the intercultural communications, trying to avoid the ***ist language, and people should possess prudent attitudes, using the standard words to replace the ***ist ones, so as to get an equal language environment. 3. Ms. as an Alternative to Both Mrs. and Miss. Women are labelled as married or unmarried women when they give their title as Mrs or Miss, but men are all Mr and don’t have to reveal their marital status in society, so feminists have proposed Ms as a equivalence of Mr, there is an incresing trend to drop the titles and a person’s first name and surname in letters, public notices, and so on. For example, when people want to write a letter to a company, but do not know the *** or name of that person, they can start the letter “Dear Mr. and Ms.” or “Dear Agent”. The examples show that it is incorrect and not accetable to ignore women in business and some other fields, it’s also not good to offend people with ***ist words and expressions. B.Social Strategy First of all, it is significant to establish the social consciousness that women are equal to men, language is a mirror of the society, there is no ***ism even gender difference in the English itself. The