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April: Agent Nouns

             Agent Noun: ‘a noun (in English typically one ending in -er or -or) denoting someone or something that performs the action of a verb, as worker, accelerator, etc.’ [OED]

When we hear or read the words printer and speaker and runner, do we think of a woman or a man? The word allows us to think of either, but, in practice, we may find ourselves thinking of a man. To say that we are thinking may not be accurate. We may be engaging one of the short cuts of fast speech since we have to decode what we hear as fast as speakers encode what they say.

On 17 March 2018, a headline on the front page of The New York Times read: ‘Draw a Leader. What’s She Like? Trick Question?’ ... READ MORE

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