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Caribeing | 17:41 Sun 22nd Jul 2018 | Film, Media & TV
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Always thought a male was an actor a female an actress now it seems to be all actors, was watching Sunday Brunch today and they said now we have actor Jemma Rooper and she was a female didn’t know her anyway but made me think has all my education etc been useless!
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I'm not sure how the actor/actress distinction came about. I remember when we had managers and manageresses and waiters and waitresses still exist as separate entities, but we've never had doctors and doctoresses, for example
17:49 Sun 22nd Jul 2018
let's have more poetesses and editresses, I say.
Editrix?
no, they were always editresses in the good old days. There was the occasional aviatrix, though - probably so few they didn't have to worry about what the plural might be.
I always go self catering to avoid that problem Andy.
'Some people' may realise that the word is borrowed from the Fraunch and the 'h' is silent, like in horses doovers.

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