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The female words are largely romance language loan words because they're related to textiles and fashion and, in the English speaking world, France and Italy do
by brimble 5y ago
The female words are largely romance language loan words because they're related to textiles and fashion and, in the English speaking world, France and Italy dominate those fields (or did for a long enough time, historically, that tons of the terminology comes from their languages, anyway).
They're still English.
- caf 5y agoAgreed they're still English. It's a little interesting how many from both sides of the list are loanwords, though - on the "male" side there's examples like howitzer, aileron, strafe and katana. I wonder if there's an effect here because loanwords are harder to learn?