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On Secretly Gendered Language

Word Matters

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Untidy in the Nineteenth Century

Dictionaries in the nineteenth and certainly the early twentieth century, really seem to have embraced this. Tidiness od is tidiness the purview of the woman in a house. And so she's untidy, well then you gev like failure of womanhood write menwhile i've got a whole family of warbsye. Well, this is sha chucky pig over in my place.

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