Why are there gendered words for some professions like actor and actress but not e.g. doctor and doctress?
In: 1937
The English language was birthed by Norman men-at-arms trying to seduce Saxon bar wenches, then raised on almost a thousand years of piracy. It doesn’t so much borrow words from other languages as much as it chases them down dark alleys, beats them over the head and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
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