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blond/blonde actor/actress fiancé/fiancée widower/widow waiter/waitress

• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  None of those are nouns with grammatical gender (semantic gender, yes. Grammatical gender, no). English is not such a language. Our pronouns are marked for gender; our nouns, including names, aren't.
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  • thaumasiotes 11y ago
    It's worth observing, as a fun fact, that English obeys a grammatical gender system which is not masculine/feminine: in modern American English, "who" is a pronoun for people (and anything being granted a sort of honorary personhood, like a pet), and "what" is a pronoun for non-people. The third-person pronouns follow the same distinction, with "it" being marked for nonpersonhood. This is a change from historical usage, and is why e.g. some people today will be offended by another person referring to their baby as "it".