nouns

Some authors have proceeded to still more minute divisions and sub-divisions of nouns; such, for example, as the following, which appear to be more complex than useful: _Natural nouns_, or names of things formed by nature; as, man, beast, water, air: 2.

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One of the ways that people avoid using gender specific nouns is to use honorifics (the trooper, a detective, the sergeant) rather than generic terms when refering to individual sworn officers but not using their name.

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Oh, and Krikorian also whines about “the whole Latina/Latino thing — English dropped gender in nouns, what, 1,000 years ago?”

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When I don't have a particular idea in mind for a poem, I'll extract a few hundred nouns from a text (or a combination of texts) and write them down in columns.

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So even though certain nouns like domus (“house,” 4th) or res (“thing; matter; affair”, 5th) are technically regular and in very commonplace use, they still SEEM irregular because so few other nouns have matching patterns.

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Throbert McGee: and still have a good recollection of the rather complicated patterns of inflectional suffixes for Latin nouns andverbs.

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* Similarly, the Spanish letter ñ (which is always considered as a separate letter, not as a form of n) is usually found in words that had a double nn in Latin: annus – año (Romance languages form their nouns from the Latin ablative case, anno in this case).

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Favourite collective nouns from the animal world: a charm of finches, a murder of crows.

Brian Ruckley · Collective Nouns (& A Big Cave)

As for the usefulness of gender in nouns, it does allow for an extra level of detail (as does case) which can allow German and other languages with gendered nouns an economy of expression that English cannot duplicate without inviting ambiguity.

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