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Immi666 | 22:32 Tue 08th Nov 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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who decided the sexes should be called male and female? and how did they decide which was which?
  
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Latin is the source. In that language 'mas' meant 'a male person'...which is where we got 'masculine'...and 'femella' was used to mean 'a female person', based on the word 'femina' meaning 'a woman'.

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