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In english 'Doctor' is a word that at one time exclusively did refer only to males. A word used for females was 'Doctress' http://doctordoctress.org http://doc
by err4nt 9y ago
In english 'Doctor' is a word that at one time exclusively did refer only to males. A word used for females was 'Doctress'
http://doctordoctress.org http://doctordoctress.org
- bloak 9y agoThat could be relevant. Also the word "actor", with the same ending, is sometimes (by some newspapers, for example) reserved for men. Sometimes a similar trick anecdote is told about a "German". There's a suspicion that the ending "man" in "German" primes the listener to imagine a man.