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Old 11-19-2019, 01:53 PM   #76
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Default Re: Occupational Forensics

Relating to gender I can think of a couple of examples relating to professions.
Referring to a all Hares as female was a thread in the novel "I shall wear midnight" which I presume is based on real world folklore, but I can't find a reference.

Another example is for cattle workers to refer to all calves still on cows as Male, this is just verbal shorthand to differentiate them from the cows which are of course all female.

Again with animals referring to a female canine directly as a bitch is becoming less common outside of people who work with dogs all the time.
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