On 17/09/2017 14:37, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/17/2017 5:28 AM, tim... wrote:
"James Wilkinson Sword" wrote in message

How is it logical to assign a sex to a word?

It isn't

because where linguistics are concerned the term is "gender" (which
despite an explosion in common usage is NOT a synonym for sex)

Right.* I didn't have gender with my wife last night.

I think you should have done. It's your duty, man!