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1. Cthulh+(OP)[view] [source] 2018-02-15 15:24:19
I dunno, it threw me off for a bit - "doctor" still has a very male connotation with me. Mind you I've not seen one in forever.
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2. err4nt+S1[view] [source] 2018-02-15 15:36:20
>>Cthulh+(OP)
In english 'Doctor' is a word that at one time exclusively did refer only to males. A word used for females was 'Doctress'

http://doctordoctress.org

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3. bloak+5i[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-02-15 17:32:02
>>err4nt+S1
That could be relevant. Also the word "actor", with the same ending, is sometimes (by some newspapers, for example) reserved for men.

Sometimes a similar trick anecdote is told about a "German". There's a suspicion that the ending "man" in "German" primes the listener to imagine a man.

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