On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:07:01AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women.  Everything else is gender
>neutral.

Back when I was taking French and Latin, it seemed to me that most nouns
naming unpleasant things were feminine.

Bill
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