On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, > used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is "officially" > anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more like a > masculine noun. Do some free-association and tell me what makes a word "feel' masculine or feminine. (I have a theory, but I don't want to influence what you say).