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Perception of vocabulary question, please reply and/or retoot: does the word "fellow" imply a gender, and if so, how strongly?

Bob Tarte - Octodon @BobTarte

@packbat My answer would be "not necessarily." Just like the collective noun "guys" can refer to all males, a mixed group of males and females, or even all females. But there is no question that the original meaning of both words referred exclusively to males.

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