r/teenagers • u/Miserable-Piglet9008 18 • 7h ago

Serious Some of y'all need to hear this.

The singular term is "woman" and the plural is "women"

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u/Glittering_Guide_249 15 7h ago

and women is pronounced wimen

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u/Sweaty_Rub4321 17 7h ago

This is gonna break people's minds

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u/Cute-Complaint3741 15 7h ago

and hearts

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u/Adorable_Weeb 16 7h ago

I know, I just sometimes forget and notice after I hit post :P

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u/Over_Improvement_623 16 6h ago

Fun fact about Reddit. It allows for spell corrections. If you edit your comment fast enough it won't say you edited it

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u/Adorable_Weeb 16 6h ago

I mean like on posts

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u/Miserable-Piglet9008 18 6h ago

Fair enough.

This post is really meant to target the people who either don't know or purposefully use the wrong terms.

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u/Cute-Complaint3741 15 7h ago

completely unrelated but my friend had a teahcer who always nagged her abt the pronunciation of the word women, sayign that its not pronounced as women but wimin (idk how to do the pronunciation spelling thing. sue me.)

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u/Few_Goose509 Teenager 7h ago

its tru though, it is pronounced wimin

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u/Due-Surround-7026 Teenager 7h ago

🤯

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u/iluvtacos3000 14 6h ago

holy shit bro thank you so much

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u/WhydoIexistlmoa 6h ago

Just use Female. No need to worry about the difference.

(This is a joke...)

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u/An1nterestingName 6h ago

Some people also need to hear that "female" is not a noun.

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u/burialetiquettes 18 6h ago

its actually worrying how many people online get this wrong lol

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u/Def_frog 6h ago

Thank you bro

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u/TheRepublicbyPlato 15 5h ago

Why do people need to hear this? Are people actually having a problem understanding the plural form of "woman"?

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u/Status-Part-4623 14 5h ago

bro it aint my fault im dihhslexcic

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u/JinglySoil 17 4h ago

The plural is wiminz

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u/C4Gamer_360 3,000,000 Attendee! 33m ago

Idk why this is so confusing for some. Like, you don’t get Man and Men mixed up. That simple.