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Re: word gender identity

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, June 1, 2003, 21:49
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:30:19PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > It that a French-only phenomenon?
> Il uovo, le uova in Italian (not gli uovi).
That is interesting. I'm not aware of any examples in Spanish (the Romance language with which I have the most experience), but I guess it's a logical possbility when developing from a language with three genders into one with only two. -Mark

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