PARIS (AFP) — Bread is masculine, beer feminine. In French, every noun has a gender, and that includes the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 is feminine — to be used with the article ...
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 ...
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 ...