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Сообщение от OZ

Да, это такая несправедливость. На выставках кошек женского рода называют queen, а собак - bitch. Какой-то собаконенавистник все это придумал.

- Оля, для тебя - небольшой экскурс в историю слов

"The practice of calling female cats "queens" is loosely based on the fact that many of the reproducing females of a species are called queens (bees, ants, lions) and only these "queens" can or are allowed by nature to breed.Male cats are called "toms" "

"The term "bitch" comes from the 1150 word "bicche", which was developed from the Old English word "bicce". It also may have been derived from the Old Norse word "bikkja" for "female dog". The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term meaning "female dog" to around 1000 A.D" (Webster history)