Rambler III wrote: "pritsy" <pritsy@comcast.net> wrote in message news:sd6dnZnbOekX-gPVnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@comcast.com... eBob.com wrote: I'm serious. I am curious about suffixes. Studette does sound better to me but why not studess? After all it's actress and stewardess. Nope. It's actor and flight attendant. [snip] "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213@earthlink

"pritsy" <pritsy@comcast.net> wrote in message news:sd6dnZnbOekX-gPVnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@comcast.com... eBob.com wrote: I'm serious. I am curious about suffixes. Studette does sound better to me but why not studess? After all it's actress and stewardess. Nope. It's actor and flight attendant. [snip] "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote in message

On 9 Aug 2008 16:43:51 -0700, R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote: tony cooper filted: On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:44:07 -0700, Dan Leifker <dleifker@leifker.com> wrote: Raymond O'Hara wrote: An American TV announcer descrided a female athelete as a "stud". I think gender bending is almost de rigueur these days. Last week's Paris Hilton video addressed Obama

eBob.com wrote: I'm serious. I am curious about suffixes. Studette does sound better to me but why not studess? After all it's actress and stewardess. Nope. It's actor and flight attendant. The problem with english feminizing suffixes is that they also tend to be diminutives, and thus have a secondary effect of making the noun less important or less imposing. Now if it were