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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited December 2021
    Yes, just as women have male arms.  We all have female heads tho you wouldn't know it.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How do they decide the gender of new words?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    What's male about doors, or female about windows? ( or is it the other way round? )
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No idea but blame it on the Italians.  The Romans started it with their Latin declensions and in the middle ages French adopted the Italian subjunctive mood to make their language more "elegant".  Catherine de Medici brought more than good cookery to the French court.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    @Obelixx, what’s your take on road signs saying ‘Beware soft verges’?
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No i dear😉 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    In French it is the construction of the word that makes it masculine or feminine, nothing to do with what it describes. Barbe (beard) is feminine, I expect if it were spelt barb it would be masculine.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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