Sex: male or female, a biological category often confused with

Gender: many examples in many languages, a grammatical category often confused with sex in languages which have adopted the so-called "natural" gender, notably English and Turkish. Many languages have two genders but by no means are they masculine and feminine. Frequently we find the two genders are animate and inanimate. Other languages have many genders, e.g., round objects, long narrow objects, flat objects, etc. In English sex and gender are often considered to be equivalent concepts. Some consider this to be excessive prudery comparable to calling poultry legs drumsticks or placing coverings over piano legs.