To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes. - H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage (1926)
gender is a "grammatical term only"
"To talk of persons or creatures of the masculine or feminine gender, meaning of the male or female sex, is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to the context) or a blunder."--Fowler
I would also add gendered electrical connections, but those didn't exist in Fowler's time.
75 posted on
01/29/2024 7:25:15 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Dr. Sivana
Electrical connectors are not "gendered", i.e., masculine, feminine or neuter, they are "sexed", i.e., male. female, or hermaphroditic.
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