Re:Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague
by quartesixte on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:46PM
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It’s kind of a quirk of history that English lost grammatical gender when importing French, German, and Latin words.
The closest idea to gender would probably be the idea of weak/strong vowels that while no longer codified, is what results in things like see/saw, run/ran, mouse/mice. IIRC Old English had a much stronger sense of these and conjugated many of their words in this way.
An example:
Mouse -> Mice is valid.
Moose -> Meese is not.
The closest idea to gender would probably be the idea of weak/strong vowels that while no longer codified, is what results in things like see/saw, run/ran, mouse/mice. IIRC Old English had a much stronger sense of these and conjugated many of their words in this way.
An example: Mouse -> Mice is valid. Moose -> Meese is not.