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01-02-2017 01:13 PM
@RinaRina wrote:
@suzyQ3 wrote:
@anjazw wrote:Sorry, I should have said hostess.
@anjazw, no, "host" is not only acceptable but preferred now. :-) So you were fine.
Hahaha! I'm stuck in the "dark ages". I still prefer "hostess".
I can't stand the gender neutral ******.
The old suffixes like "esse" or "ette" that were commonly added to the root word are diminutives. That means the they are lesser or smaller than the root word.
So a man was worthy of being a host, for example, but a woman was a smaller, less important one; hence, a "hostess."
People today generally think that a man and a woman are equally qualified, so the diminutive forms have gone out of style. In fact, they were disapproved even in some fairly older style books.
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