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Are omelets male or female? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by Nemo@slrpnk.net to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I see it spelled both "omelet" (male) or "omelette" (female), but which one is correct?

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

I'm a native English speaker but I also speak Spanish and studied Latin, so I'm pretty used to thinking of words as gendered. Maybe I should have asked just Francophones, but I didn't want to limit the question in that way.

Perhaps the answer is just that American half-moon omelets are masculine and French trifold omelettes are feminine. The world is a strange place like that sometimes.