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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Ships that pass in the night #61906 03/21/02 02:58 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 In German it is neuter. One of the few words of those that are cognate in English and German in which the gender is/(was in the case of English) different. Of thirty-four randomly selected words only three were clearly of different gender in Modern German and Old English. Regarding tropical storms being given female names up until a few years ago; storm is/(was) masculine. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Ships that pass in the night jmh 03/21/02 08:29 AM Re: Ships that pass in the night stales 03/21/02 01:51 PM Re: Ships that pass in the night hev 03/22/02 01:55 AM Re: Ships that pass in the night Faldage 03/21/02 01:51 PM Re: Ships that pass in the night Geoff 03/21/02 02:26 PM Das Boot TheFallibleFiend 03/21/02 02:53 PM Re: Das Boot Faldage 03/21/02 03:10 PM Re: Das Boot TheFallibleFiend 03/21/02 03:21 PM Re: Das Boot WhitmanO'Neill 03/21/02 04:51 PM Re: Ships that pass in the night Faldage 03/21/02 02:58 PM Re: Ships that pass in the night Capital Kiwi 03/21/02 09:43 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,412 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 854 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 36 A C Bowden 26 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,583 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,922 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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