Re: ratio of male vs. female debian users
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:40:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > There are a great many exceptions to that rule - in countries
> > like Ireland and Finland many male names end in -a.
>
> The "-o is masculine" and "-a is feminine" is purely(?) a rule for the
> latinate languages: Italian, Spanish, Portugese and, of course, Latin.
But then, even in Italy, you have Enea and Elia, that are male, while
Consuelo is female. Joele is male, but Mariele is female. Andrea can
be both.
Other means for checking are strongly suggested :-)
Bye, Enrico
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