Re: word gender identity

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> >Il uovo, le uova in Italian (not gli uovi).
>
> Shouldn't it be "le uove"? I don't know of any Italian feminine plural
> ending in -a.
Google shows 48,400 "le uova" and only 120 "le uove", so there may be
some slight tendency in that direction, but only slight.

[insert repeated expatiation on the virtues of the Web/Google as a
unique corpus of searchable unedited prose]

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