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What Attitudes To Men And Women Are Revealed By The English Vocabulary? Throughout the age of language different attitudes are revealed about both men and women. This can be presented by the fact that a-lot of terms used to refer to the women of the world, contain the man men or male for example the world female, women or the word woman all contain the world man or male and just have a simple prefix attached. There are also a-lot of words that are used to represent women, which are degrading and derogatory, whereas with men there are not many words like these. These examples would imply that the English language is biased towards men being the more important gender. This essay will explore further the ways that this can be seen throughout the English language. Default assumptions are a good case of this: A default assumption is when you hear a...

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