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"Well, in most Romance Languages, the gender assigned is the feminine. Hence, "la Internet" in Spanish."

Dayum, leave it to me to be contrarian! I've always used "el Internet" or "el Interné" (as it is my particular dialect to 'forget' the last letter)

Internet is masculine in French as well ;)

The word scip ("ship") in Old English was in fact neuter, according to Clark Hall.

I see SOL as the "mothership". Happy Mother's day!

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partly as an influence of the genders in old English.

This reminds me of why gendered nouns disappeared from the English language. It's actually kind of funny.

Old English mostly refers to Anglo-Saxon English, the variant of Low German imported by the Saxons when the invaded Britain as the Roman Empire collapsed.

However, in the 8th century when the Danes started the Viking raids against Britain, they didn't just steal gold and impregnate women, they also set up colonies, mostly in eastern England. These kingdoms mostly spoke Old Norse.

When the Normans invaded in 1066 and forced the local kings to capitulate, they installed Norman, a form of Middle French, as the official language which would be spoken by the nobility for centuries. The other official language was Latin, which was the language of the Church.

The funny part is that all three languages -- Old English, Old Norse, and Middle French -- have gendered nouns, but they don't always agree. So the peasants who actually spoke Middle English dropped the noun gendering entirely rather than trying to standardise it.

Shit out of Luck

Wouldn't that be "SooL"?

sool transitive verb

ˈsül
-ed/-ing/-s
Definition of sool
1Australia : to incite (as a dog) to attack : SIC
2Australia : to urge on

History and Etymology for sool
from dialectal British sowl, sole, sool to pull by the ears, of unknown origin

"Sool." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sool. Accessed 1 Jul. 2021.

Wouldn't that be "SooL"?

It would be. Except SOL stands for Shit Outta Luck.

Outta being the informal of "out of" and saying "Shit Outta Luck" is hardly formal language.

:)

Typically, XY ('male') and XX ('female'), but not 100%. Look up, among others:

Klinefelter syndrome
XXYY syndrome
XYYY syndrome
XYYYY syndrome
Turner syndrome
Trisomy X (Triple X Syndrom)
Ovotesticular syndrome

Those do exist but are rare. The number of cases doesn't even come close to what the LBGT numbers suggest.

They're not as rare as you think. Klinefelter syndrome (aka 47-XXY) is estimated at between 1 in 500 and 1 in 1000 live male births.

Given that the population of the US is 332 million with slightly more females than males, that means there are at least 160,000 US men with just this one condition, not including all the other ones.

In fact, since the official definition of a rare disease in the US is one which affects fewer than 200k people, if the incidence of XXY is closer to the 1 in 500 figure then the condition won't even count as rare.

As someone who actually has an XXY Chromosome, although I didn't know about it until my late 30s, I have to disagree with your "fact".

Also, if you'd read any medical texts in the last decade you'd know that under current theory there are actually five physiological sexes. And that doesn't include the fact that some people are born with reproductive systems (internal) which don't match their genital systems (external).

Scientifically, sex and gender are a LOT more complicated than just male and female. It's only in non-scientific reading that you find the binary sex concept.