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For questions about using gendered words or phrases in English.
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A "user" is "it" or "he/she"?
If you don't know, that gets into the whole subject of what pronouns to use for unknown gender, which has been discussed at length in response to other questions on this site. …
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Can 'what' designate a person?
I'm not sure that I can give clear rule. Perhaps this: We use "who" when the pronoun stands alone. We typically use "what" or "which" when it is used as an adjective or is itself modified.
Who can sa …
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Do you perceive nouns ending with -a as somewhat feminine?
In English, people's names that end with "-a" are usually feminine, like "Anna" and "Katrina" and "Miranda", while masculine names tend to have consonants, like "Robert" and "Carl" and "Roger". Boys' …
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'Manhunt for three gunmen' vs 'womanhunt for three gunwomen'
It's perfectly acceptable to use terminology that implies a gender if you attach a male term to something negative or a female term to something positive. …
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Parliament - a she?
In many languages, every noun has a gender. Things that do not have any literal gender are assigned a gender that made sense to whoever invented the word. … English does not have gender, at least not as an explicit part of the language, like different endings on a noun for different genders. …
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