Could someone write to the section 'Usage notes' that a pronoun instead ship is always feminine (or can also be feminine?). Eg.:It's the first time I've seen a ship. She was very big. (notIt was very big.) orThere were lots of people on her. (notThere were lots of people on it) Or I can quotate from the Pirates of the Caribbean, too:She is gettin' closer., etc... --Ferike33310:25, 29 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, this should be in a usage note, but it’s not really gender. In English, it’s anthropomorphization. Ships and cars, machines that you climb into and which protect you and contain you, are ladies. Storms traditionally are ladies, but under pressure of modern PC, they are being redefined as ambisexual. Seas are ladies, which, like storms, can be dangerous and unpredictable. Computers and things with AI are often boys.—Stephen16:56, 29 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Oh, very interesting. I've read something similar in Spanish (in The Old Man and the Sea), but haven't in English before. Can even a truck be ashe?Ferike33317:29, 29 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, trunks, big airplanes, large machines. Until just recent years, we always gave women’s names to powerful storms such as hurricanes, but a couple of decades ago women began to complain, so now we alternate between men’s and women’s names. Women got tired of being compared to hurricanes.—Stephen18:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hehe;) You have a good sense of humor. But what trunks did you mean? All? Trunk has several meanings (nasal organ of elephants or mammoths, the body of trees, the part of cars called boot outside the US).Ferike33311:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, it’s a typo. I meanttrucks, large vehicles used to transport goods. Britishlorries.—Stephen11:31, 5 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

In nautical language inAye, aye, sir (the correct reply on boardship on receipt of an order) --Backinstadiums (talk)10:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply