One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.......Neil Armstrong.

Its peoplekind, not mankind.........Justin Trudeau

I guess he is now working on the dictionary on which words beginning with man which don't appear to be inclusive.

For all those people who get worked up about language use changing, do you still use other expressions from the past like Poof, Darkie, Paki, Nig-nog, Woofter, Shirt-lifter, Rug-Muncher etc or have you at least evolved a little?

I don't use those words its just that Justin is so smug and self-righteous about it all.

I tend not to use disparaging words to describe people unless they come from London or Yorkshire

Its not really surprising that JT should signal his virtue in this way. It is interesting that he didn't seem troubled by the use of the word "maternal" in the same sentence - no suggestion to use the phrase "parental love" or "maternal and paternal love" instead ...

Some people get themselves worked up into a lather over nothing. The world is such a depressing place sometimes. There are some aspects I won't miss when I go.

I feel sorry for the poor female “Germans” what they must be thinking now, how horrid it must be to be a German !!!

I once asked my Franco wife if there is a rule of thumb for knowing if a noun is masculine or feminine. There isn't.

Well, apart from being born a francophone.

Nope. You could show her a noun she hasn't seen before and she would not know if it was male or female.

Scary.....

Why is it scary?

If there are no rules, you don't know. How would you pronounce Loughborough, if you didn't know already?

Those letter sequences can have wildly different pronunciations. There is no rule. Even a perfectly bilingual non-Brit would have no chance with that city name.

That's true. For example, never could get the pronunciation of Llanfairpwllgwingyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysilio gogogoch right.

Why would you need to? Ever plan on going there?

The only person I ever met that can deal with it is a college friend of mine.

Welsh is her first language. She has numerous others.

Emergency! Irony epipen required in the Gattineau region.