>>>>>>>Curious to know how non-Brits taking this would rank :-}
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>>>>>>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
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>>>>>>Hrm... Does that mean I'll have to start speaking with a Cockney accent?
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>>>>>Um... is there also a female version thereof?
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>>>>Hrm... good question... would it be Henney?
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>>>That's what I had in mind (as plan B, though).
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>>On a (vaguely) related note... Usually memory chips (e.g. RAM) have pins that are inserted into holes in socket (or have "pin-like" projections that are soldered onto "pads" on the circuit board). If the configuration was turned the other way, where the pins were on the circuit board and socket were on the chips, would we name those chips EWE chips?
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>Reminds me of the lack of explanation, when I was a kid and asked why are the plugs divided into male and female. When the explanation dawned on me, I got the explanation for that previous lack of explanation as a freebie add-on.

Of course, what gender would we apply in case of BGA attachment?