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.
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.