Currently Google scholar shows ‘salesman’ with an order of magnitude more references than ‘salesperson’
My only point is that if we are going to fork the reference, we should use something that is easier to say. (I honestly don’t care if we fork the reference :) ).
Interesting. I find 'salesperson' pretty easy to pronounce, and it has the advantage of not being homonymous with "cellar". Mileage may vary for your dialect and accent.
“Solution of a Large-Scale Traveling-Salesman Problem“
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.606...
Currently Google scholar shows ‘salesman’ with an order of magnitude more references than ‘salesperson’
My only point is that if we are going to fork the reference, we should use something that is easier to say. (I honestly don’t care if we fork the reference :) ).