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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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What Is a Widower?

This is taking us into marketness theory where one animal is allowed to stand like usually it's the male. Like if you see a bunch of lions and lionesses, you wouldn't say, Hey, look at those lionesses. It doesn't go in the other direction. Usually it's the female of the species that's marked like pea hens or mark, but peacocks aren't so peacocks can stand for both. Except in one case that I'm aware of and that's where the male is marked. And that's a widower. Widows are kind of unmarked and that's the female, but a widower is a male and that’s the marked

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