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  2. Dude - Wikipedia

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    Dude" may have derived from the 18th-century word "doodle", as in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". [6] In the popular press of the 1880s and 1890s, "dude" was a new word for "dandy"—an "extremely well-dressed male", a man who assigned particular importance to his

  3. Terry - Wikipedia

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    Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976; Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player; Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer

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    The folk etymology in the US (at least when I was in middle school) was that "dude" meant a cow's anus or something like that. r ʨ anaɢ 13:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC) The folk etymology in Canada when I was in school was that it meant a wart on a horse's butt. Paul Davidson 13:11, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

  5. Gender in English - Wikipedia

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    Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun masculine, feminine or neuter depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular. Mass or non-count nouns (such as frost, fog, water, love) are called neuter because they select the pronoun it. Count nouns divide into masculine and feminine.

  6. Dude (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Dave the Dude, hero of the film Lady for a Day (1933) and its remake, Pocketful of Miracles (1961). The Dude, in the Western film Rio Bravo, played by Dean Martin; Dr. Dude, from the pinball machine Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray (1990) Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, protagonist of the film The Big Lebowski (1998) Dude, a character in the 2021 ...

  7. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...

  8. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    the. MASC. SG abuelo grandfather el abuelo the.MASC.SG grandfather "the grandfather" Feminine la the. FEM. SG abuela grandmother la abuela the.FEM.SG grandmother "the grandmother" In "grammatical" gender, most words that end in -a and -d are marked with "feminine" articles. Example of grammatical gender in Spanish "Grammatical" gender Number Phrase Masculine Singular el the. MASC. SG plato ...

  9. Gender-neutral language - Wikipedia

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    Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, [1] formation of phrases in a coequal manner, and discontinuing the collective use of male or female terms. [2]