• Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Yes? English is only my second language, but the way I hear it:

      Woman: Whoman

      Women: Wimin or Wimen

      The latter is much shorter.

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          1 year ago

          The i-pronunciation is commonplace enough that some feminists who want to avoid the word “men” spell “women” as “wimmin”, i.e. the phonetic spelling.

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            11 months ago

            Interesting. I associate the “wimmin” spelling with Terry Pratchett’s writing, where it’s used in the speech of lower/middle-class men, implying casual/uninformed objectification.