A slip of the tongue.

[Norder]

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Cool Norder.very interesting.��

thought you'd appreciate - Alf...being I know how much you like hitting the road in the camper....around the time of a full moon.


Man Wolf

Thanks, Norder. Etymology has long been one of my interests.

It interests me too why, linguistically, female nouns often defer to male nouns. Once we had actress. Now all are generally referred to as actor. Similarly, authoresses are now authors. Yet so many rail against male dominance in society.

Why are male actors not referred to as actresses?

Any thoughts?

to me, Swiss....there was never the need to set actor or author (etc) apart with "esses", because in essence.... they're both professions, so unless only one member of a species can fulfill the vocation - how can said profession be either masculine or feminine ?