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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
(July 13, 2015 at 2:37 am)Atheist_BG Wrote: I've noticed only Americans tend to refer to cars and ships as "she". Why "she"? After all these are inanimate objects, so why the "she" pronoun?
Is it just ignorance or is it something else I don't understand?

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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by dyresand - July 14, 2015 at 3:37 pm

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