Pet Peeve #3587
I hate the word "actress."
You don't call a female doctor a "doctress," or a female professor a "professoress," do you? A female actor is an actor. She acts.
You don't call a female doctor a "doctress," or a female professor a "professoress," do you? A female actor is an actor. She acts.
posted by Andrew Hamm @ 12:34 PM
3 Comments:
At 7/20/2006 3:22 PM ,
Anonymous said...
But I call a female waiter a waitress. A female taylor is a seamstress (figure that one out). The English language is inconsistent about dealing with gender specific nouns. Deal with it.
At 7/21/2006 12:47 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Word for word the exact phrase I use when describing why I refer to actors, female and male, as actors. Sorry, Phil, Andrew's got it on this one.
At 8/26/2006 3:02 PM ,
Anonymous said...
The book King Dork, by Frank Portman, has a funny section on this. Shame I can't find the passage...
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