Wednesday, July 14, 2010

(-Ette) - English editing.

The use of -ette as a feminine suffix for forming new words is relatively recent: it was first recorded in the word suffragette at the beginning of the 20th century and has since been used to form only a handful of well-established words, including usherette and drum majorette, for example. Nowadays, when the tendency is to use words which are neutral in gender, the suffix -ette is not very common and new words formed using it tend to be restricted to the deliberately flippant or humorous, as, for example, bimbette, punkette, and ladette.
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