To: Gaffer
Gender can apply to personal or impersonal nouns. The former category is being eliminated in English, although it remains in Romance languages. Aviator/aviatrix and actor/actress are just about gone, but we still have king/queen, prince/princess, and a few others.
18 posted on
07/17/2016 9:28:59 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("The real world does not unfold according to our neat ideological models." ~Kevin Williamson)
To: Tax-chick
Yes. I realize. Comedian/Comedienne, Steward/Stewardess and so on. BTW, I'm thinking we only have "queen" specifically because of Barrack Hussein Obama AND Hillary Rodham Clinton, primarily because3 I think they prefer opposite genders..
26 posted on
07/17/2016 9:38:48 AM PDT by
Gaffer
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