Re: word gender identity

Hi!

Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> writes:
> "die See" = sea, ocean
> "der See" = pond, lake, pool
>
> German has a number of these - in fact theses is(was?) a book published
> about them
Oh, yes, of course, I thought you wanted a change to something more
vulgar by not using the original article. :-) Your new example is a
very good.

German also has words that have different plural when used with
different meanings:

die Bank, pl: die Banken  - 'the bank'
die Bank, pl: die B"anke  - 'the bench'

And French seems to have some words that change gender from singular
to plural I think (l'orgue -- the organ?).

**Henrik

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