TIL Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix; tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/neffability
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She should’ve been more specific
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Jacob_Young6138
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I found a specific hobby of adding alliteration to German philosophers’ names

Glad I found my Nietzsche niche

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Plumsby
πŸ“…︎ Jun 24 2020
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My wife just informed me that β€œterrible two” refers to a kids in a specific developmental stage

And all this time that’s how I always referred to my two kids at all times

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πŸ‘€︎ u/PLUMBUM2
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My son is learning about proper nouns and he said that a proper noun is specific thing and a common noun isn't. He said an Ocean is a common noun and the Pacific is a proper noun.

I look him dead in the eye and say, "What a Pacific example you just gave"

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πŸ‘€︎ u/ProfessorOfLies
πŸ“…︎ Apr 21 2020
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I have been diagnosed with a very specific type of Amnesia.

It causes me to deny the existence of certain 80's bands.

There is no Cure!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Stoatwobbler
πŸ“…︎ Dec 24 2019
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You need a specific kind of humor

Why did Sally fall off the swing?

She had no arms...

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Not Sally...

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πŸ‘€︎ u/bishan11
πŸ“…︎ Nov 22 2019
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Very specific indeed...
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ici_cle
πŸ“…︎ Nov 12 2019
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Did you know back in midevil Russia they had a specific hole that they would throw their rulers in for being too facetious

It was called the tsar chasm

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πŸ‘€︎ u/TalontedJay
πŸ“…︎ Aug 27 2019
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Mexican Coke is my favourite variety, especially because its from a specific area...

...guess that makes it a coke-lloquialism.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/symmetrygear
πŸ“…︎ Jul 29 2019
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$52.95 is an oddly specific amount of money...

But $52.94 is an evenly specific amount of money

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πŸ‘€︎ u/ThoseMovieGuys
πŸ“…︎ Mar 16 2019
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My GPS is difficult to use whenever I try to look up specific coordinates.

It has a bad latitude.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/FinalCaveat
πŸ“…︎ Jun 25 2019
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The tour group visiting the capital of Italy did not have a specific agenda...

So the could roam Rome!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/thomasbrakeline
πŸ“…︎ May 28 2019
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The nurse called me and said, β€œUnder β€˜medical history’, we were hoping for something specific to you...”

You wrote down β€œFleming discovered penicillin in 1928.”

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πŸ‘€︎ u/porichoygupto
πŸ“…︎ Mar 14 2019
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I wrote my strategy for dealing with a specific set of circumstances in a notebook, but my friend wrapped it in aluminium paper.

He foiled my plan.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/AlRedux
πŸ“…︎ Mar 03 2019
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Meanwhile in the specific ocean
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πŸ‘€︎ u/enonimosu
πŸ“…︎ Sep 20 2018
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My aim is to maybe be more specific one of these days.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/TommehBoi
πŸ“…︎ Feb 09 2019
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If you're looking for a specific Red Herring, how do you know if you've got the right one?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/smallnorth
πŸ“…︎ Mar 10 2019
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Hey dad. How big is the specific ocean?

I don't know son. Can you be more pacific?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/MattTheGamer20
πŸ“…︎ Jun 17 2017
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I think I'm allergic to one specific type of nut

Cashew!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/stubob
πŸ“…︎ Jul 19 2018
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How I learned my father was like a genie, be very specific about what you say

A few years ago I was feeling slightly ill but I was playing it up because I did not want to go to school.

On the phone

Me: Dad I feel really sick

Dad: Do you think you will need to go to a walk in

Me: I think so

Dad: Well I am working right now would you like me to call you an ambulance?

Me: Yeah

Dad: YOU'RE AN AMBULANCE YOU'RE AN AMBULANCE

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πŸ‘€︎ u/moo8
πŸ“…︎ Aug 31 2013
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Certain animals seem to like certain styles of music and specific bands.

Termites like Styx.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/RichNCrispy
πŸ“…︎ May 28 2017
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Have to Get Specific

Got my girlfriend with this one just now.

Me: Going into the kitchen to get something to drink, you want anything?

GF: Sure

Me: Anything Specific?

GF: No don't think so

Me: Anything Vague?

proceeds to laugh the whole way to the kitchen

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πŸ‘€︎ u/TeHeTyler
πŸ“…︎ May 02 2016
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I asked my dad what a specific country was on the globe

Me: (Pointing at country on globe) "Dad, what's this?"

Dad: (Grabs the globe, spins it around and breathes on it) "Global warming."

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πŸ‘€︎ u/The_Roylee
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