• Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Yes? English is only my second language, but the way I hear it:

      Woman: Whoman

      Women: Wimin or Wimen

      The latter is much shorter.

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          The i-pronunciation is commonplace enough that some feminists who want to avoid the word “men” spell “women” as “wimmin”.