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For questions about using gendered words or phrases in English.
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Is a reader feminine like the moon or ship?
Nouns in English, even nouns like "girl" or "man" do not have grammatical gender. Nouns like "reader" and "moon" certainly do not have gender. …
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Is using gender-specific language when talking about inanimate things can be wrong in any se...
In particular it isn't "gender-specific", since we are not talking about human (who may or may not have an actual gender). …
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Which adjective to use for a personification of living being (her/his or its)?
Sometimes we use personification. We pretend something is alive for poetic effect. In your example nature is personified as a woman/mother. Death is personified as a (male) skeleton with a scythe.
T …
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Feminine pronouns for countries
This is an example of the literary technique of personification. Generally countries take a neuter pronoun "it", but when we treat them as people we generally view them a "mother".
In Britain there …
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Can "he" and "man" refer to all genders?
This is called gender-neutral writing. New texts should usually aim to be gender-neutral when possible and appropriate. … "He" and "Man" have been used to mean a person of unknown gender, but you should avoid this style in new writing. …
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Can a doula be a male? If not, what is the male equivalent of it?
First off, this is a pretty rare word. I had to look up its meaning, and visit a the natural childbirth trust website to understand how it differed from "midwife" (another word that that you could as …
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