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To: grundle

Commercial brewers were sometimes women.

There are English occupational surnames with feminine suffixes: Brewster, Baxter, Webster, Dyster/Dexter. Maybe not Spinster, though.


4 posted on 05/15/2023 7:12:20 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood
There are English occupational surnames with feminine suffixes: Brewster, Baxter, Webster, Dyster/Dexter. Maybe not Spinster, though.

"-ster" is a "feminine suffix?!"

Then what would the masculine form look like?!

Regards,

29 posted on 05/16/2023 5:00:14 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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