• 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.