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Hello MrPedantic, You wrote: PS: I also prefer to think of it as sex, rather than gender. Gender is for the nouns... I think there is a difference between sex and gender: sex refers to a person's bilogical sex while gender includes assumptions regarding behaviour. To me, 'sex' sounds...

1. Why are there no articles in front of the words "legislature" and "parliament"? A majority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in parliament and legislature that the winner gets in an election, and the number ... 2. When you are listing things after a colon, are you...

Proper names (often called proper nouns ), are the names of specific, unique entities. Proper nouns can easily be distinguished from common nouns in English because proper nouns are indeed always capitalized. There's not much more that can be said on the subject, so I'll resort to examples: ...

You can say "a French man" or " a French woman", depending on their gender. And no, "Frenches" doesn't exist.

Hi guys, I haven't heard the term 'Frenchman' for years. It sounds rather quaint. In these gender-conscious times, I'd say that the term sounds like it is intended to exclude the women of France. Best wishes, Clive

This book looked promising – it was subtitled A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made by Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better – and in the first few pages I came across a passage referring to that group: What did these people study in high...