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An example of confused gender
and continuing the discussion from I&A on confusion of posters' gender*, (Hyla, Keiva, et al) I too have made this error. In my case, I think it is because I associate names ending in the letter "A" with females (Anna, Belinda, Melissa, and others). In particular there are male names which are feminised by the addition of an "A", Robert to Roberta, Robin to Robina, for example. Spanish (and the other Latin languages I think) has examples of words where the masculine form ends in an "O" and the feminine in an "A" - el niņo, la niņa. So this linguistic prejudice of mine overflows into board handles I'm afraid.
*posters' gender. Is that correct, each poster presumably having only one gender, or should that be "posters' genders" anyway?
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