• tiredofsametab@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, German has that as does English. Host vs Hostess, Actor vs Actress, etc. There is a push to only use the male word (I’ve never seen it go the other way). What a lot of people don’t know is that surnames also preserve things like this. Brewer was a male brewer but Brewster was a female one.