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Woman doctor is much older, and makes grammatical sense under the assumption that doctor is an exclusively male title. Female doctor implies that male and female are both ordinary categories of doctors.
Edit: while “females” is a reference to the Ferengi in Star Trek DS9.
That’s such an American take.
Here in Australia female doctor makes grammatical sense, and woman doctor sounds ridiculous. Woman doctor would have the same assumption as it also has an opposite in man doctor, which sounds equally as ridiculous unlike male doctor.
Now you could say my doctor is a woman and that makes perfect sense whereas my doctor is a female is ferengi.
Woman doctor and nan doctor are just gynecologist and andrologist
Isn't a "nan doctor" a grandgynocologist?
Or a gerontologist.
I only noticed it now and it was a hilarious typo
But only if you look around and then covertly gesture at your genitals while saying it.
I think it would be “Doctrix” in older versions of English.
I tend to drive more when my family goes on trips, while my wife acts as navigatrix.
Then we both cackle while the kids ignore us in the back.
Cool word, it's fun to put the emphasis on different syllables. I like it on the I.
The -trix suffix was dead long before there were many female doctors, only surviving in dominatrix.
When my grandparents died, my mother kept referring to herself as the executrix while handling the estate. People would visibly cringe every time she did, until I got her to stop.
Executrix is still common when dealing with estates tho?
Perhaps it varies regionally, but even the lawyer cringed, and didn’t use it himself.
Yeah, I only discovered the word when I read “doctoress” in a translation I was proofing and knew there was something going on there.