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Widows/ers may have some associated confounding factors

• hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
  I'm sorry to be off-topic but widows/ers just hurts my eyes. Why not use a more elegant alternative, widow(er)s? Even the uglier widow(s|ers) would be better.
  • kirubakaran 3y ago
    Or the gender neutral, invariant noun: “widowen” BTW, shouldn’t “widower” be the person who died and the survivor be called “widowee”?
    • Retric 3y ago
      That may seem reasonable but widower is a man whose spouse died. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widower https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widower “Etymology Middle English widewer, alteration of wedow widow, widower, from Old English wuduwa widower; akin to Old English wuduwe widow”
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      • hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
        > Old English wuduwa It's one of these more universal words of Indo-European origin: https://ids.clld.org/parameters/2-770#2/14.4/149.7 https://ids.clld.org/parameters/2-770#2/14.4/149.7
  • RulerOf 3y ago
    I'm sure there's a style guide out there that would suggest using "The widowed."