If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

"The masculine trumps the feminine "... How many times have we not heard this endless phrase repeated by our French teachers? This rule of grammar is well known to all French speakers and we had to - ...

For months, the people of France have faced an énigme. Was Covid-19, the new coronavirus tearing across the globe, masculine or feminine? Grammatically speaking, that is. In practical terms, should ...