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> I literally knew all of the male words and zero of the female ones (I’m male)/ I find it kind of astounding that someone can know what aileron or azimuth is,
by Ansil849 5y ago
> I literally knew all of the male words and zero of the female ones (I’m male)/
I find it kind of astounding that someone can know what aileron or azimuth is, but not what a doula is. The former I have never, ever encountered, whereas I feel like doulas come up as a routine topic in culture.
- unmole 5y agoFrom the Wikipedia article, it seems like doula is of fairly recent American coinage. And the fact that it's comes up as a routine topic probably says more about your social circle than anything else.
- Ansil849 5y ago> And the fact that it's comes up as a routine topic probably says more about your social circle than anything else. Not really. Unless my 'social circle' also has a monopoly on metrics like Google Trends, doula is a more popular term than either aileron or azimuth in the majority of countries for which metrics are available. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=doula,azimuth,aileron https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=do...
- unmole 5y agoThe fact the there are more searches for a commercial service compared to technical terms is not indicative of anything. I googled doula because I don't know what it meant. I don't think I ever googled azimuth or aileron.
- wrycoder 5y agoI've known what a dually is for six decades, but I never heard of a doula.
- ncmncm 5y agoI had never heard them called duallies (duallys?) before this millennium. First encountered the word at a drive-thru (-through?) car wash, where they were not allowed, and was left to figure out from context what it must mean.